Knickers

Definitions

1. Knickerbockers.
   US, colloquial, plural, plural-only, rare
2. Women's underpants.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Students in the University were not permitted to keep⟳ cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […].”

“He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.”

“The debate⟳ here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take⟳ off our knickers to help⟳ out?”

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