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Knickerbocker definition

☆ Knick·er·bocker (nik′ər bäk′ər)

noun

  1. a descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York
  2. any New Yorker
  3. short, loose trousers gathered in at or just below the knees, as those worn by Dutch settlers of New York; knickers

Etymology: after Diedrich Knickerbocker, fictitious Du author of Washington Irving's History of New York (1809)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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