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knickerbockers

knic·ker·boc·kers

UK/ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/ US/ˈnɪkɚbɑkɚz/ uncommon archaic

noun

Origin

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.

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