swampers
Rubber-bottomed, leather-topped winter work boots — U.P. uniform.
Definitions
The classic Yooper boot: waterproof rubber from the sole to the ankle, leather up the shaft. Built for slush, mud, deer camp, and any season that isn't actively summer. Think L.L. Bean Bean Boot, but spoken in a Finnish-Michigan accent.
swampers In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
Yooper / Upper Peninsula English, named for the swampy terrain they were built to slog through.
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