Dictionary

deblouse en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From de- + blouse.

Meanings

1. To untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.
   • Everybody had debloused their pants long ago to get air circulating. 2013, Sean M. Maloney, Fighting for Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, →ISBN:
2. To remove the blouse from.
   • 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. 2011, Doreen Priddey, Walter Williamson, A Tommy at Ypres: Walter's War, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2003, Brennan Chadwick Emerson, Windfall, →ISBN, page 34:
   • 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. 1994, James Pallot, The Motion Picture Guide 1995 Annual: The Films of 1994, →ISBN, page 177:
   • There was carousing and jumping, roughhousing and tumping, deblousing and thumping, arousing and humping, and ever so much dowsing and pumping. 2004, Sam Friedland, The Giant, →ISBN, page 246:

Forms

Antonyms

blouse (antonym(s) of “military”)

Relateds

blouse

Synonyms

unblouse