knickerbockers
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of knickerbockers
C19: regarded as the traditional dress of the Dutch settlers in America; see Knickerbocker
Vocabulary lists containing knickerbockers
Example Sentences
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Ned Irish, boss of the Knickerbockers, was hot after him last year.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021
No team has played more games on Christmas than the Knickerbockers.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019
Adams was the president of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club, which hosted a convention of 14 New York-area clubs to codify the rules of "Base Ball."
From US News • Apr. 7, 2016
Also included in the album tracks are Day Tripper, Run For Your Life, and Lies, recorded here by the Knickerbockers group, who back Nancy on the film.
From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015
Above them all was a dying requiem of bells, tolling low and mournfully like a warning to belated road-farers that the ghosts of the haughty Knickerbockers were seeking earth again.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay
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