blue-jeaned

adjective

ˈblü-ˌjēnd 

variants or less commonly bluejeaned

: wearing blue jeans

Fletch is a symbol of alienated youth: a blue-jeaned, smart-aleck, cynical bohemian.

—Newgate Callendar, New York Times Book Review, 31 Jan. 1982

She's in the midst of me and a bunch of my teenaged friends, sitting in a canvas chair, slim elegant blue-jeaned legs crossed, laughing.

—Eleanor Cooney, Harper's, October 2001

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for blue-jeaned

• contravened
• guillotined
• intervened
• quarantined
• reconvened
• supervened
• careened
• convened
• demeaned
• machined
• unscreened
• cleaned