hazmat suit

English

Noun

hazmat suit (plural hazmat suits)

1. (US) An impermeable suit covering the entire body to protect from biological or chemical hazards.
   • 2020 December 10, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     Los Angeles is under permanent lockdown, and daily health checks are mandatory, the sick carted off to the ominous Q-Zone by armed sanitation workers in yellow hazmat suits.

   • 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:

     […] put on your face mask, douse your entire body with hand sanitizer and then — to be safe — don a hazmat suit

Translations

suit

• Finnish: suojapuku (fi), suojavaate
• German: Chemikalienschutzanzug m
• Spanish: traje NBQ m
• Swedish: skyddsdräkt c