sleever
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[edit]sleever (plural sleevers)
- A person employed to fit sleeves to garments.
- 1949, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1155:
- In May 1946 she received a post card to report for work with the Respondent as a sleever. When she applied Superintendent Honig asked her if she was not a trimmer, and when she responded in the affirmative he told her that they had no work for her.
- A vertical bar, elliptical in cross section and tapered towards the end, used to shape the sleeve of a garment.
- (in combination) A garment having sleeves of the specified kind.
- 2003, Rob Grunke, Bottle to Throttle: The Drinking Life of an Airline Captain:
- The gravy stain on Ken's J .C. Penney short-sleever drew a lot of attention, like a fly on a wedding cake.