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sweater
/ˈswɛtɚ/
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What does sweater mean?
noun
- A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
- A similar garment worn for warmth.
- One who sweats (produces sweat).
More meanings (6)
noun
- One who or that which causes to sweat.
- A diaphoretic remedy.
- (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.
- (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
- (obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.
verb
- To dress in a sweater.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈswɛtɚ/
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We had leisure to notice minutiae, such as the ingenious tail one of the “lions” had constructed from a sweater.
Fred carried a slicker and a sweater, and he made Thea wear one of the rubber hats that hung in Biltmer’s gun-room.
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A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver.
On John’s footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.
Hence these shops abound in the worst of the foreign districts where the sweater easily finds his cheap basement and his home finishers.