Was it the effect of the bulletproof glaze on the windows, or had dusk really turned the sky a sheer, sugary violet? The air in the small office carried the smell of freshly glazed donuts from the discount bakery next door. When footage of protesters picketing the clinic played on the evening news, there was usually some slacker off to the side, leaning on his sign and eating a long john.2001, Mary O’Connell, “Saint Dymphna”, in Living with Saints, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 4:
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He drank more coffee in a paper cup and ate a long john covered in maple-sugar icing and dialed Marley in San Francisco.2006, Baker H. Morrow, “The Luger”, in A Tropical Place Like that: Stories of Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 135:
Two long johns, a Super Deluxe Big Guy coffee in a bright red Styrofoam cup with two creams, a pack of cigarettes, and two lottery tickets.[…]In a couple minutes, he’s setting the red Super Deluxe Big Guy cup, filled with coffee (two creams, no sugar), down on the gray counter, with his two long johns, and he points behind her. He sits on the lot, stuffing down a long john, sipping coffee, thinking:[…]Out in his truck, Bernie sits, eating long johns,[…]2008, Jack Smith, Hog to Hog, Huntsville, Tex.: Texas Review Press, →ISBN, pages 4, 5, 7, and 92:
“I got coffee and donuts,” Waite said. “Bring The Kid in—he can sleep on my couch.”[…]Clay ate a long john and fell asleep as soon as he hit the couch, rolled up on his side and facing the wall.2021, Chris Fabry, chapter 32, in Sarah Mason Rische, editor, A Piece of the Moon, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 299:
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Alternative, As a modifier Alternative form of long-john (“of or relating to long johns (the undergarment)”).
The bottom compartment of her big packbag contains a very light wool long john top (Norwegian-made, very soft), a tennis hat, underpants, and a polybag with sanitary napkins in it.1979, Harry Roberts, Movin’ Out: Equipment and Technique for Hikers, Washington, D.C.: Stone Wall Press, →ISBN, page 68:
Clothing - Inner Layer / Long john top and bottoms (wool or synthetic)[…]Some undershirts or long john combinations are made of beautiful Angora wool, some are mixtures of synthetics and others of cotton.1989, Ron Watters, Ski Camping: A Guide to the Delights of Backcountry Skiing, Great Rift Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 41 and 50:
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And then when Mitch was found, he was dressed in a long john top, a tuxedo coat and shirt and a winter police type jacket and I want you to assume further that the car seats were light green but darker than the car.1994, Illinois Appellate Reports: Official Reports of the Illinois Appellate Court, volume 264, third series, page 129:
Base Layer / expedition-weight long john top / expedition-weight long john bottoms / midweight long john top / midweight long john bottoms2000 March, Backpacker: The Magazine of Wilderness Travel, page 144:
Also raise her long john leg part and pants up to her knee.2006, Flavio Rivera, “The Crossing”, in Escape Into America: A Novel, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 133:
“Fast,” Winona said, deftly pulling out the long john bottoms from the pile that Kate was holding and letting them dangle to the floor.[…]She pulled off her boots, stood and skinned out of her pants and pulled on the long john bottoms, and put her own pants back on and the rain trousers over the top of them. She wrestled out of her shirt, and put the long john top over her own torn one, the shirt back on, the blue sweater that smelled pungently of Winona.2013, John Keeble, “The Killer”, in The Shadows of Owls: A Novel, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 316:
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As a modifier Of or relating to long johns (the undergarment).
Bloody to the elbows from gutting it, sweat pouring down his joy-reddened face, stripped down to his long-john top despite the twenty-degree cold, he had dragged the deer down from the top of Widdershins where he’d shot it three hours earlier.1982, Thomas Mordane, Bloodroot, Dell Books, →ISBN, page 200:
You open your first aid belt, take out a seam ripper, and expertly open the seam of the left pant leg to the knee. Then you open the seam of the left long-john leg to the knee.1993, Warren D. Bowman, Outdoor Emergency Care: Comprehensive First Aid for Nonurban Settings, 2nd edition, National Ski Patrol System, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 207, column 3:
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While lying down, she wriggled into wool long-john top and bottoms.2000, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Wilderness Journey: Reliving the Adventures of Canada’s Voyageurs, West Vancouver, B.C.; Seattle, Wash.: Gordon Soules Book Publishers Ltd., →ISBN, page 190:
Long John
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An ant tree of the species Triplaris surinamensis.
About the centre are large trees such as “Long John” and Wild Cacao which stand well above the other growth, forming ideal resting places for the “chicken hawks” as they wait to swoop down on young gauldings.1919, The Journal of the Board of Agriculture of British Guiana, page 218:
Where clearances have been made in the original forest and secondary growth has taken possession, Pampwood (Cecropia peltata) and Long John (Triplaris surinamensis) are common.1927, The Gardeners' Chronicle, page 70, column 3:
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On Fridays Muslim men dressed in white passed by on their way to the mosque in Church Street, while on Sundays Christian women and their children ambled along on their way to the numerous churches in Kitty, clutching their Protestant hymnals and their hats, in danger of being carried off by the wind which did not abate until it lost its way among the saman and Long John trees bordering the Botanical Gardens.1988, Roy Heath, The Shadow Bride, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 162:
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A type of long coffee table.
Aunt Matilda set the coffee tray down on the Long John table.1964, Daisy Thomson, To Love and Honor, New York, N.Y.: Pyramid Books, published 1974, →ISBN, pages 55–56:
109 A pleasant ‘Long John’ coffee table.1969, David Joel, Furniture Design Set Free: The British Furniture Revolution from 1851 to the Present Day, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, →ISBN, page xiii:
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The long, low, rectangular-shaped table known as the Long John, is still the most popular type of coffee table.1992, “Modern Occasional Tables”, in Kimberly Kerrigone, editor, Planning a Perfect Living Room, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Creative Homeowner Press, →ISBN, section “Long John”, page 59, column 1:
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Alternative letter-case form of long john (a pastry).
The complete assembly provides means for sheeting, rolling and cutting of the dough, and is suitable for a great variety of products, such as butterfly buns, coffee cakes and rings, egg biscuits, snowflake rolls, yeast raised plain and twisted doughnuts, cinnamon buns, Long Johns, and many others.1938, Minutes of the General Managers Conference, Chicago, Ill.: The W. E. Long Co., page 362:
OLD WAY: This worker and another turned out only 40[…]Long Johns hourly in former hand production.1955, “Long John Donuts at 10 Dozen a Minute”, in Food Engineering, volume 27, page 113:
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We spent many mornings and afternoons eating Long Johns, using the quarters we saved from our bus money.1987, T.E.A.M., the Early Adolescence Magazine, volume 2, page 47:
We bought a couple of Long Johns and drove to Horseneck Beach State Reservation, where we sat on the dunes overlooking the ocean and enjoyed the sinfully delicious sweets.2000, Gourmet, volume 60, page 24, column 3:
Specialties include cream puffs, Long Johns, and a variety of old-time favorites all hand made with real cream.2006, Cape Cod 2006, Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 12:
Outside Hole-in-One Donut Shop, a lady was waving wildly.[…]Faster than you could eat a Long John, Ellie sprang into action.2017, Gina Bellisario, “Smarty Paws”, in Alison Deering, editor, Super Fluffy to the Rescue (Ellie Ultra), North Mankato, Minn.: Stone Arch Books, →ISBN, pages 38–39: