knickerbockers

IPA: nˈɪkɝbɑkɝz

Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
(basketball, uncommon) The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association
(baseball, historical) A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York

Examples of "knickerbockers" in Sentences

However, many women now affect "knickerbockers" and vice versa.
The little boy in knickerbockers playing with a diabolo on page 103 is a perfect period piece.
Across from Miss Hazel sat her brother in knickerbockers, his Alpine stock at his elbow and also his fan.
Old-fashioned long stockings with colorful stripes were called knickerbockers, and that’s how this parfait got its name.
Emil had come to the lake directly from university, wearing a pair of plus-four knickerbockers with boots and a belted, one-button coat with large patch pockets.
Stripped of all apologetic circumlocution, "knickerbockers" are simply loose, easy trousers, above which is worn a becoming blouse waist, and thus attired, the belles of New
He was an extremely picturesque gardener, dressed in knickerbockers and leather gaiters, with a touch of red in his waistcoat, and a cardigan jacket and a cap on the side of his head.
A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and