raincoatn.
/ˈreɪnkəʊt/, U.S. /ˈreɪnˌkoʊt/ 1. A coat designed to protect the wearer from rain, esp. a relatively light, full-length waterproof coat; a mackintosh.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > weatherproof > waterproof
raincoat1830
mackintosh coat1835
mackintosh1836
nor'-wester1853
slicker1884
mac1901
gabardine1909
rain slicker1910
trench coat1921
pac-a-mac1951
1830 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia App. 52 As a defence from rain, the men wore ‘rain coats’, and the women ‘camblets’.
1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan II. 3 The farmers, dressed in their grass rain-coats.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 187/1 Men's Double Texture Mackintosh Rain Coats..Made from good quality diagonal cloth..suitable to wear in place of an overcoat.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 19 Feb. 5/1 He was rather shabbily dressed, wearing a rain-coat, which was much worn.
1925 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 238/2 His raincoat was split up the back, under his belt.
1967 R. Rendell Wolf to Slaughter (1970) i. 13 They didn't want all and sundry picking out an obvious cop from his raincoat and his shoes.
1986 R. Frame Long Weekend (1988) 95 The mist was colder against her skin than she'd felt all afternoon. She pulled up the collar of her raincoat.
2005 New Yorker 28 Nov. 62/3 A tall, Nicoesque blond woman in a shiny white raincoat leaned against the mantelpiece.
2. North American slang. A condom.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > condom
condom?1706
armour1708
machine1749
protective1827
French letter?1844
sheath1861
French safe1868
letterc1890
rubber1913
Durex1932
prophylactic1934
raincoat1934
male condom1938
Trojan1951
safety1952
safe1959
Frenchy1963
scumbag1967
internal condom1969
franger1975
dicksack1996
1934 ‘J. M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana 2nd Ser. 27 [He] followed the clerks [sic] advice and used two condrums [i.e. condoms] at the same time... He finally adjusted six rain-coats on his tool.
1971 Amer. Speech 46 83 Rubbers,..safeties, Trojans, raincoats, [etc.].
1988 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 Oct. 44/2 If a guy said, ‘I ride bareback’.., I'd tell him he needs a raincoat.
2005 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Daily News (Nexis) 1 Sept. 23 A gel..that would help prevent the spread of HIV even if he refused to wear a raincoat.
Compounds
C1. attributive. Designating a provider or user of pornography or prostitution. Cf. raincoat brigade n. at Compounds 2.Customers of pornography and prostitutes are often popularly imagined as wearing raincoats, perhaps for the sake of anonymity.
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1971 Evening News 4 June 11/3 The pedlars with spotted white raincoat minds.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 July 842/2 The serious press in England is still being penalized for having so long tolerated less high-minded efforts at disclosure by the raincoat press.
1986 T. Barling Smoke i. 12 So many housewives work the raincoat trade for pin-money the regular toms might just as well work a till at Tesco's.
1986 J. Friedman in Tales of Time Square (1993) 180 The Apollo was..perhaps, the archetypal American theater imagined to be attended by truck drivers, murderers, and raincoat wankers.
1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 31/3 This is erotica that its creators believe will appeal to the shagged-out and work-weary 1990s, the ‘empty raincoat’ as well as the dirty raincoat generation.
C2.
raincoat brigade n. people who habitually watch erotic or pornographic films.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [noun] > frequenting cinemas
raincoat brigade1976
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person > frequenting cinemas
raincoat brigade1976
1976 Observer 12 Dec. 24/4 Mindful of its duty to the raincoat brigade, however, the film abandons investigation at regular intervals to provide the expected, and inordinately protracted, bouts of titillation.
1997 Time 13 Jan. 69/2 U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish.
Derivatives
ˈraincoated adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a coat > types of
blue-coateda1594
russet-coated1596
grey-coated1597
parti-coated1598
black-coated1600
red-coated1641
greatcoated1748
short-coated1813
frock-coated1850
tail-coated1850
buff-coated1856
overcoated1856
tunicked1876
raincoated1901
trench-coated1923
Crombie-coated1951
slickered1972
1901 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 8 Apr. It was a sombre Easter, raincoated and much-umbrellaed.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 30 June 4 In the early 1960s, the core audience for erotic cinema was a coalition of raincoated heavy-breathers and earnest young people in cableknit sweaters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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