clam diggers

See also: clam-diggers and clamdiggers

English

Noun

clam diggers pl (plural only)

  1. Alternative form of clamdiggers.
    • 1950 July, Helen Gregutt, “Victory”, in Esther R. Bien, editor, The American Girl, New York, N.Y.: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
      Medium height and a figure that was well-molded except for the dragging left leg that had been attacked by polio on just such a summer day three years ago. Her clam diggers camouflaged her almost to normalcy.
    • 1987, Linda Sunshine, “Best Friends and Barbie Dolls”, in The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing Up in New Jersey (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 44:
      My only consolation was that Sasha’s move inspired me to design a line of travel clothes—plaid clam diggers with a matching plaid circle hat box—which ran in the Spring Previews issue of Katy Keene.
    • 2019, Mandy Mikulencak, chapter 3, in Forgiveness Road, John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 32:
      Her small frame, clothed in clam diggers and a plain white tee, added to the illusion Janelle held a girl, not a woman.

Noun

clam diggers

  1. plural of clam digger
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