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knee pants
plural noun
- knee-length pants, especially those formerly worn by boys considered too young to wear full-length trousers (often used as a term symbolizing youth):
I haven't felt this way since I was in knee pants.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knee pants1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
Over the headstone presently came the knee pants, the faded calico waist with bone buttons.
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(p. 420) He did not, he later admitted, regard Roosevelt's corduroy knee-pants with favor.
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It did so after considerable delay, and a pimply boy in knee pants showed me upstairs into the waiting-room.
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Napoleon wore the uniform of a general officer, but with white knee pants and silk stockings.
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A pair 88of knee pants, a conical grass hat, and a hemp shirt formed his entire apparel.
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