blue-collar

Speech parts

1. blue-collar - Adjective

2. blue-collar - Phrase

3. blue-collar - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of or designating manual industrial work or workers

of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

Alternative names

blue collar

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Examples

It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that. Alan Moore

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people. Jayson Williams

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? Joan Blades

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing. Ne-Yo

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. Penn Jillette

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. Barbara Ehrenreich

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