knee pants

American  

plural noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of knee pants

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

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knee pants

As a page in knee pants at the Oklahoma legislature, he wrote a critical piece on the state senate, shyly showed it to a reporter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Bill, fascinated by politics, roamed the State Capitol, watched the legislature at work, and hit the campaign trail with his father before he was out of knee pants.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Hitler's SS bullies were still in knee pants, the Frankfurter Zeitung was a great and influential liberal newspaper, respected the world over as "the Manchester Guardian of Germany."

From Time Magazine Archive

Like other boys, he wore knee pants and heavy shoes with brass toe tips.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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