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knickerbockers Definition


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knickerbockers
knickers
plural noun
    1. Baggy trousers tied just below the knee or at the ankle.
Etymology: 19c: named after Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym of the author of Washington Irving's History of New York, 1809.



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