Etymology

knickerbockers

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Today it means: Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century. Full definition →

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knickerbockers · noun1

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.

Knickerbockers · noun2

See Knickerbocker.

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