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Knicks

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.
Noun
  1. 1
    Knickers. British, colloquial, plural, plural-only

    "“People never notice you when you are looking half- decent. During the sales I was in a communal changing room and was stripped down to my knicks — and not my best car accident knickers either — when a woman said, ‘Aren’t you that woman off the telly?’ and everyone stared.”"

  2. 2
    Lycra pants (usually short) used by cyclists. plural, plural-only

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the fictional Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of knickers.

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