Full record for vacsuit n.

Definition a vacuum suit; a space suit
OED requirements antedating 1942
Earliest cite L. Brackett 'Child of the Sun'
Comment Also 'vac suit', 'vac-suit'.

Douglas Winston submitted a 1969 cite for "vac-suit" from Richard C. Meredith's "We all Died at Breakaway Station". Mike Christie checked the cite in the 1968 first publication, and it doesn't appear there. Douglas Winston submitted a 1982 cite for "vacsuit" from Michael McCollum's "A Greater Infinity". Douglas Winston submitted a cite for "vac suit" from a 1997 reprint of David Weber's 1993 "On Basilisk Station". Fred Galvin submitted a cite for "vac-suit" from a 1959 reprint of Leigh Brackett's 1944 "Terror Out of Space". Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 cite for "vac suit" from Leigh Brackett's "Child of the Sun". Fred Galvin submitted a 1967 cite from Keith Laumer's "Spaceman!".

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Citations for vacsuit n.

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1942 L. Brackett Child of Sun in Planet Stories Spring 107/2 ‘Vac suits,’ he said. ‘There are two and a spare.’ They got into them, shuffled through the airlock, and stood still, the first humans on an undiscovered world.
1984 W. Gibson Neuromancer (1989) iii.x.129, I want you to get over to the pro shop and get yourself fitted for a vac suit.
1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 53/1 He began putting on a vacsuit, pausing before he sealed the helmet.