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bell-bottoms

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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

A young man in striped bell-bottoms and fringed vests in the 1970s, shaggy-haired and youthful Oliver spent a lot of time with artists, actors and free-thinkers.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2022

I knew better than to ask for a pair of bell-bottoms or jeans, although Miss Honeywell looked snappy and mod in her shocking-pink bell-bottom pants and matching jacket with big gold buttons.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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