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Knick·er·bocker (nikər 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)

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