Meaning of Knicks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.
2. Knickers.
   British, colloquial, plural, plural-only
3. Lycra pants (usually short) used by cyclists.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

““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.””

“Despite all the attention focused on Beth, when Gossip performs, they are without doubt a band: Nathan and Hannah Billie, the drummer, being just as cartoon charismatic as Beth herself, though perhaps less likely to strip to their knicks and dive-bomb the crowd.”

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