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Rainboots
Wet Weather rubber boots. 'Gumboots' or other similar words were rarely heard: Put your rainboots on.
Contributor's comments: Used in 50's and 60's in Broken Hill.
Contributor's comments: I work as an English teacher in Japan, and on a rainy day we had one of those conversations where none of the English speakers can understand the others. I was talking about the gumboots, the british guy was talking about the wellingtons, and the guy from Texas was talking about the rainboots, just as you mentioned. So I wonder if the term came from America, or whether it popped up by itself out there in the middle of the desert ...