blue collar



blue collar

of the lower class or working class; of a job or a worker, having to do with manual labor. (Also, when used as an attributive adjective, often blue-collar. Compare this with white collar. Alludes to the typical color of work shirts worn by mechanics, laborers, etc.) His parents were both blue-collar workers. He was the first person in his family to go to college. They bought a house in a nice, settled, blue-collar neighborhood.
See also: blue, collar

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Flavia['fleivjə]
Eardwulf-Anglo-Saxon
Nikolainee-kah-LIE (Russian)Russian, Bulgarian
ArsÈNe-French
GemmaJEM-mah (Italian), JEM-ə (English), KHE-mah (Dutch)Italian, Catalan, English (British), Dutch
SheaSHAYIrish