Meaning of Knickerbocker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to knickerbockers.
   archaic, attributive, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
   uncountable
4. A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families
   archaic, historical
5. A player for the New York Knicks
   uncommon
6. A player for the New York Knickerbockers
   historical

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Examples

“...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.”

“His knickerbocker days are gone, His last long stockings laid away: My baby has his trousers on, — My boy becomes a man to-day.”

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