Full record for skinsuit n.
| Definition | a thin, tightly-fitting spacesuit or clothing convertible to a spacesuit) |
| OED requirements | antedating 1957 |
| Earliest cite | Forrest J Ackerman in Imaginative Tales |
| Comment | Fred Galvin submitted a 1957 cite from Forrest J Ackerman in Imaginative Tales.
Added to the OED in September 2009 with a more general, non-SF definition, and a first date of 1956. First SF cite there is from John Varley's "Millennium (1983) |
| Last modified | 10 September, 2009 |
Citations for skinsuit n.
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| 1983 J. Varley Millennium ii. 17 | I'd been feeling like I'd shrunk inside my skinsuit. |
| 1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes (1989) 40 | Somehow Mucho Muchacho had emerged from the screen to don his body like a skinsuit, for it was Paco Monaco, Mucho Muchacho, who found the song pouring forth from his lips. |
| 1990 G. Bear Heads 30 | Gloves removed but skinsuit still on, she gave me a quick hug. |
| 1992 A. Steele Labyrinth of Night 38 | They now followed Jessup, all three clad in the lightweight Mylar skinsuits which had recently replaced the more cumbersome hardsuits of the first expeditions. The white fabric overgarments of their skinsuits were soiled with red dust, and every few seconds, short steamy-cold plumes of vapor vented from their backpacks: waste carbon-monoxide, expelled from the open-loop life-support systems which extracted oxygen from the native carbon-dioxide and fed into the skinsuits' zero-prebreath environment. |