blue jeans

plural noun

: pants usually made of blue denim
blue-jeaned adjective

Examples of blue jeans in a Sentence

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The casual look of them goes as well with leggings as a pair of blue jeans. Clint Davis, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025 In the chaos that followed, police got a bad description from a woman at the scene who told them the killer was a man in a white shirt and blue jeans. John Annese, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025 Items such as blue jeans, bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles could be affected. Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025 For nearly six decades after World War II, they were separated by an impassable physical barrier—a museum documents the ingenious ways people smuggled blue jeans, laundry detergent and pornography—which was dismantled only in 2004, when Slovenia joined the European Union. Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blue jeans

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

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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 23 Apr. 2025.

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blue jeans

plural noun
: pants usually made of blue denim

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