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fatigues - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

fatigues

• plural of fatigue

Noun

fatigues pl (plural only, attributive fatigue)

• (military) Menial duties, especially as punishment.
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: CB, jankers
• (US) Military clothing worn when doing menial tasks.
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: khakis, camos, blues
  • ✤ He looked up, met gray eyes ringed with paintstick. She was wearing faded French orbital fatigues and new white sneakers.¹
  • ✤ Ross: … why do you have to wear underwear tonight?²
  • ✤ The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.³
• ✤ Joey: It’s a rented tux, ‘kay? I’m not gonna go commando in another man’s fatigues.

Verb

fatigues

• third-person singular simple present indicative of fatigue

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /fəˈtiːɡz/
• Audio (US): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9: ↩

2. 1996, Friends (TV series), “The One Where No One’s Ready” [3.02], Act 2, approx. 12 minutes (of 23): ↩

3. 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution ‎${}^{[1]}$, The Center for International Security and Cooperation: ↩

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