union suit

American  

noun

1. a close-fitting, knitted undergarment combining shirt and drawers in one piece and often having a drop seat.

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Etymology

Origin of union suit

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

It sure beats racing through the yard on a cold night, trying to wiggle out of a scratchy union suit just to use the spider-infested outhouse in the pitch-black dark.

From Washington Times

Better yet, women could ditch the corset entirely in favor of one-piece union suits.

From Washington Post

Copp may be the reason that my wife and her siblings and both our children have always had good vocabularies: destitute, vituperative, locality, inauspicious, gauche, megalomaniac, union suit.

From The New Yorker

Milt would slip into his black union suit, cape, mask, and emerge ready to battle upperclass bullies—Thwack!

From Salon

Can you image squeezing into a corset, a union suit or subjecting your hair to one of the early electric permanent wave machines?

From Washington Times