Meaning of knickerbockers | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
   plural, plural-only
2. The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association
   uncommon
3. A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York
   historical

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Examples

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

“[…] and some gems that represent the tasseled garment that the leader wears show it in a distinctly religious connection. On a gem from Zakro it [the sistrum] is being being carried by a man who does not wear the loin-cloth, but a baggy kind of knickerbockers like the Moslem trousers of to-day.”

“And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.”

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