Meaning of Strides | Babel Free

Definitions

Trousers.

Australia, UK, plural, plural-only, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press⟳, 2011, Boolarong Press⟳, page 97, So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give⟳ him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.”

“He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face⟳ a quick rinse and threw on a clean⟳ pullover.”

“His mother used to have⟳ to buy⟳ two pair of strides for him, cut⟳ the legs off one and sew them onto the other.”

“I thought of Des and May′s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep⟳ the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.”

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