LONG JOHNS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long johns mean? 

• LONG JOHNS (noun)
  The noun LONG JOHNS has 1 sense:

1. warm underwear with long legs

  Familiarity information: LONG JOHNS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG JOHNS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Warm underwear with long legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("long johns" is a kind of...):

underclothes; underclothing; underwear (undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)