Knickerbocker definition

nĭkər-bŏkər

Any New Yorker.

noun

Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee; knickers.

noun

A descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.

noun

A native or inhabitant of New York.

noun

A descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York.

noun

Knickers, as those worn by Dutch settlers of New York.

noun

1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song.

His knickerbocker days are gone, / His last long stockings laid away: / My baby has his trousers on, — / My boy becomes a man to-day.

noun

Origin of knickerbocker

After Diedrich Knickerbocker , fictitious author of History of New York by Washington Irving

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition