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knickerbocker
noun 6
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2KNICKERBOCKER + NOUN
days, pocket
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in
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
noun
1
A surname from Dutch.
2
A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families
3
A player for the New York Knicks
4
A player for the New York Knickerbockers
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...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.
Wiktionary02
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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