knickerbocker

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Definition of knickerbocker

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noun

(archaic, attributive, uncountable)Of or relating to knickerbockers.

“...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.”
“His knickerbocker days are gone, His last long stockings laid away: My baby has his trousers on, — My boy becomes a man to-day.”

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noun

(archaic, attributive, uncountable)Of or relating to knickerbockers.

“...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.”
“His knickerbocker days are gone, His last long stockings laid away: My baby has his trousers on, — My boy becomes a man to-day.”
(uncountable)A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
A surname from Dutch.
(archaic, historical)A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families
(uncommon)A player for the New York Knicks
(historical)A player for the New York Knickerbockers

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