Knickerbocker
- a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
- any New Yorker.
Origin of Knickerbocker
Examples from the Web for knickerbocker
Contemporary Examples of knickerbocker
On some, on the letterhead, it will say, Dashiell Hammett, Knickerbocker, San Francisco, California.
The last time he saw her was at lunch at the Knickerbocker Club in September 2001.
Knickerbocker SKD also happens to have another client—the Rev. Al Sharpton, with whom Kennedy just had a media-event lunch.
Historical Examples of knickerbocker
Here was the mythological monster that the Knickerbocker has become.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
There was never anything quite like the Knickerbocker, and there never will be again.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
The other was an odd mélange, which had appeared in chapters in the Knickerbocker Magazine.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
He had read the Knickerbocker, and knew my name well, and took good care of us.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Soon after, Clark republished it in the Knickerbocker, saying that it was evidently by me.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Knickerbocker
- a descendant of the original Dutch settlers of New York
- an inhabitant of New York
Word Origin for Knickerbocker
Word Origin and History for knickerbocker
Knickerbocker
"descendant of Dutch settlers of New York," 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular "History of New York" (1809). The pen-name was borrowed from Irving's friend Herman Knickerbocker, and literally means "toy marble-baker."