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tin pants
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- heavy waterproof trousers, usually of paraffin-soaked canvas, worn by loggers and fishermen.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tin pants1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
Unlike the first travelers to visit here in the early 1900s, we hadn’t come to soak in the hot springs, ride a dog sled or hike the glaciers in tin pants.
From Seattle Times
Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses or in their own cars.
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