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- pluralplural of stride
- AustraliaUKpluralplural onlyslangTrousers.
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.
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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.
2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, page 173His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, page 211I 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.
1994, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House, published 2008, unnumbered page
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of stride
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