holeproof

[ hohl-proof ]

adjective

1. (of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
2. constructed so as to prevent evasion or subterfuge:

   a holeproof document.

Word History and Origins

Origin of holeproof¹

First recorded in 1910–15; hole + -proof

Example Sentences

But he was smiling when he said it; though a new knitting process makes the stockings runproof, it does not make them holeproof.

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Last week, still pulling itself up by the garters, Kayser agreed to pay $13 million for Milwaukee's thriving Holeproof Hosiery Co.

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Holeproof Hosiery pioneered cheesecake by lifting skirts and showing legs.

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In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose.

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They had just passed what they believed to be holeproof legislation to replace the punctured, lately-expired Cinematograph Films Act of 1927.

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