Usually means: Manual labor, often skilled trades.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word blue-collar:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. blue-collar: Merriam-Webster
  2. blue-collar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blue-collar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blue-collar, blue-collar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blue-collar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blue-Collar, Blue-collar, blue-collar: Wordnik
  7. blue-collar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blue-collar: Wiktionary
  9. blue-collar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blue-collar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blue-collar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blue-collar: Dictionary.com
  13. blue-collar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blue-collar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. blue-collar: Rhymezone
  16. blue-collar: FreeDictionary.org
  17. blue-collar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. blue-collar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. blue-collar: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blue-collar: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor.
adjective:  Pertaining to the culture of blue-collar workers.
noun:  A blue-collar worker.

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