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knickerbockers

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Editorial note

Now that golfers no longer wear knickerbockers, I guess we're all pretty much sans-culottes.

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Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

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noun

Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

noun

(basketball, uncommon) The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association

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(baseball, historical) A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York

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Now that golfers no longer wear knickerbockers, I guess we're all pretty much sans-culottes.

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How do you use knickerbockers in a sentence?

Now that golfers no longer wear knickerbockers, I guess we're all pretty much sans-culottes.

What does knickerbockers mean?

Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

What part of speech is knickerbockers?

knickerbockers is commonly used as noun.