hazmat
nounUS /ˈhæzˌmæt/
Etymology Blend of hazardous + material.
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US, Often Hazardous material(s).
- hazmat suit
- No, but one day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and a puff of powder came all over my face and my chest. […] They said, “Don’t move, stay in the room.” And they got the hazmat people. So they came, they sprayed me down and all that.2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2021: