deblouse

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ blouse.

Pronunciation

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Verb

deblouse (third-person singular simple present deblouses, present participle deblousing, simple past and past participle debloused)

1. (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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• unblouse

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “military”): blouse

Related terms

• blouse

Anagrams

• besouled