pedal-pushers

A form of pedal pushers — Women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves.

Meanings

nounpedal-pushers pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of pedal pushers.

    If my long-legged eighth-grader can’t find any shorts that meet the length rules other than granny pedal-pushers she hates, that is just too bad.

    2021 August 20, Marlene Rubin, “Masks? Think dress codes”, in Tampa Bay Times, volume 138, number 027, [St. Petersburg, Fla.]: Times Publishing Co., page 17A, column 2
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    And stepping up onto the squares, are people ranging from their 70s to 6. Older women in shorts and pedal-pushers; one woman, a physician at TMH, wearing tights; a potter, who has been clogging for decades since his grandson talked him into it, along with his sister and sister-in-law.

    2021 June 22, Marina Brown, “The Clogging Life: Mountain Dews tap out joyous message from front yard classes”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume 116, number 173, page 1C

    Our car was loaded to the brim with the pedal-pushers, Keds, flip-flops and paper fans we were hoping to sell from the side of the road to the mountain vacationers.

    2023 February 5, Stuart Leshaw, “Learning the art of the sell from Mom”, in Newsday, volume 83, number 155, page E24
noun
  1. pluralplural of pedal-pusher
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