clothes n.
In compounds
(US black) a well-dressed, clothes-conscious woman.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Hartman Wayward Lives (2019) 117: Nothing is more contemptible than the crowds of these dandaical ‘Clothes-bags’ [...] full of vanity and pretense, poisoned with lust and whiskey and too proud [...] to work. |
In phrases
(US) working as a detective.
| Patrolman 185: I decided to attend the course and spend my last few months in ‘clothes.’. | |
| City Police 397: Everyone assumes that plain-clothesmen take something. ‘They’ve been in clothes for some time now. You know how it is, everybody in the district knows who they are but they still make some pinches.’. |
In exclamations
(US) control yourself, calm down.
| Pineapple Street 231: ‘Jesus, keep your clothes on, George.’ Cord tried to reel his sister in. |