garbage mitt

noun

Etymology

A type of mitt once commonly seen worn in cold weather by garbagemen.

Definitions

  1. A thick hide mitten, with thick pile lining.

    • She looked like a man, like a miniature version of Buck wearing his old red toque with the ragged pompom, his garbage mitts stained with fish blood, the army green parka.
    • I would get into the most fabulous fistfights — dropping my garbage mitts and hurling my fluxing body onto another adolescent, and we would roll around in the freshly plower street tasting salt and each other’s fists.

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