deblouse
English
Etymology
From de- + blouse.
Verb
deblouse (third-person singular simple present deblouses, present participle deblousing, simple past and past participle debloused)
- (military) To untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.
- 2013, Sean M. Maloney, Fighting for Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, →ISBN:
- Everybody had debloused their pants long ago to get air circulating.
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- To remove the blouse from.
- 1994, James Pallot, The Motion Picture Guide 1995 Annual: The Films of 1994, →ISBN, page 177:
- Rarely has a sexploitation flick managed to have it both ways: IMPROPER CONDUCT criticizes male-dominated power plays while offering viewers a voyeuristic peep at white-collar types abusing their power to deblouse their underlings.
- 2003, Brennan Chadwick Emerson, Windfall, →ISBN, page 34:
- In his death, he strays in his mind to one day as a child when he stood naked and blind. Cruel trick of step children; he stood in the courtyard debloused, blindfolded and cold.
- 2004, Sam Friedland, The Giant, →ISBN, page 246:
- There was carousing and jumping, roughhousing and tumping, deblousing and thumping, arousing and humping, and ever so much dowsing and pumping.
- 2011, Doreen Priddey & Walter Williamson, A Tommy at Ypres: Walter's War, →ISBN:
- Was she wanting to sell the dummy along with it, or was she waiting till I turned my back while she de-bloused the figure.
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Synonyms
- unblouse
Antonyms
- (military): blouse
Related terms
- blouse
- deblousers
- tuck
Anagrams
- besouled