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Knickerbockers

//ˈnɪkɚbɑkɚz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century. plural, plural-only

    "Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect."

  2. 2
    plural of Knickerbocker; New Yorkers, particularly descendants of its original Dutch settlers archaic, form-of, historical, plural
  3. 3
    (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee wordnet
  4. 4
    The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association uncommon
  5. 5
    A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York historical

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.

Etymology 2

See Knickerbocker.

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