DCHP-3

tin pants

Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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heavy work pants of canvas soaked with a waterproofing solution, as of paraffin wax, formerly much worn by loggers.

Quotations

1927
As to his costume it was altogether grotesque, consisting of a grayed and torn buckskin shirt without a collar, a pair of "tin pants" so covered with patches that little was left of the original material.
1948
. . . his face and neck were tanned and wrinkled like an old pair of logger's tin pants. He wore congress shoes.