flood pants

noun

Pants suitable for wear in high water.

Meanings

nounflood pants pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyPants suitable for wear in high water.

    Some clothes would be too big, which was good, because you could grow into them, while others would be too small and look like flood pants.

    2017, Derrick Nearing, Anchor of My Heart: Memories of a Cape Breton Childhood
  2. pluralplural onlyPants that are too short.

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