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n. - A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.

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  • The most extensive "galosh" factory in Russia, which is said to be the largest in the world, is reclaiming rubber according to American methods.
  • The hero's name was Robert Porter Allen, research director of the Audubon Society and no galosh-wearing dispenser of birdseed, he.
  • He ducked under a display of condoms that promised long-lasting pleasure in a variety of colors and certainly were an improvement over the old Soviet galosh.
  • Sculpted by Lithuanian artist Romas Kvintas, it depicts a boy clasping a galosh, in a nod Gary’s 1960 work "La promesse de l’aube" Promise at Dawn.
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  • A galosh (rubber rain boot) was thrown into the "ghoulish" (loathsome or disgusting) goulash (a type of stew).
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