blue jeans

plural noun

: pants usually made of blue denim
blue-jeaned adjective

Examples of blue jeans in a Sentence

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During a trip to Disney World, Gaines teamed a pair of green Adidas sneakers with a red sweatshirt and cuffed blue jeans. Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025 He was last seen wearing a black hoodie with a white logo on the back, blue jeans, and white shoes, police said. Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025 The suspects, both wearing blue jeans and grey sweaters, sped off in a white four-door Kia before police arrived. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025 Officers responded to Slappy’s Express Car Wash around 10:45 a.m. on Monday after two men wearing blue jeans and gray sweaters got out of a white four-door Kia, approached the victims’ car parked in a bay, and shot the father and child to death, Forest Hill police said. Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blue jeans

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of blue jeans was in 1842

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“Blue jeans.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20jeans. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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blue jeans

plural noun
: pants usually made of blue denim

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