trousers
Americannoun
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Also called pants. Sometimes a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down.
plural noun
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a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
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US equivalent: wear the pants. informal to have control, esp in a marriage
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Etymology
Origin of trousers
1585–95; trouse (variant of trews ) + (draw)ers (in the sense “undergarment with legs”)
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Trousers, jackets, sweaters and collared shirts are for going places, being seen, living life in public.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
The annual No Trousers Tube ride has taken place despite plunging temperatures in the capital.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
The follow up, The Wrong Trousers, was broadcast by the BBC on Boxing Day 1993.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
Trousers were loose-fitting harem pants with wrapped details, paired, for example, with a crisscross top.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2021
Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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