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boiled shirt

noun

Etymology

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) states: "In the mining camps, and rough parts generally, a white shirt is called a biled^([sic]) shirt to distinguish it from the usual woollen garment, which cannot be boiled."

Definitions

  1. A freshly laundered white shirt.

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