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bell-bottoms

British  

plural noun

  1. trousers that flare from the knee and have wide bottoms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He’s wearing a gold sequin jacket over a fresh-pressed polka-dot shirt, fuchsia bell-bottoms and yellow trucker’s hat with an Appalachian-style beard.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

She held public office continuously since she was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969, the days of bell-bottoms and love beads.

From Washington Times Oct. 8, 2023

Models at her show last year came down the runway in silk cargo pants, a baby-blue faux-fur skirt, flower-embroidered bell-bottoms and even deconstructed football jerseys with glittery stripes on their baggy sleeves.

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2023

In Vegas, his hair is long in back, wide as his white bell-bottoms, taking up space as Elvis the figure, larger-than-life.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2022

Crumpled yellow bell-bottoms and a go-go bag that was loved.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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