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clodhoppers

NOUN
construction boots
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I just wasn’t ready to scuttle around at belt level in clodhoppers.

From The New Yorker May 16, 2016

The results look like horror film versions of Greek, Indian or African religious sculptures, or like the detached tobacco-fiend heads and disembodied clodhoppers in Philip Guston’s late paintings.

From New York Times Dec. 18, 2010

Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wears good clothes, bought with the East European royalties of One Day, but in haphazard combinations: round fur hat, shiny green Finnish car coat, smart imported trousers and enormous Soviet-made leather clodhoppers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee



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