Knickerbocker meaning

nĭk'ər-bŏk'ər
Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee; knickers.
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A descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
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A native or inhabitant of New York.
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A descendant of the early Dutch settlers of New York.
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Any New Yorker.
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Knickers, as those worn by Dutch settlers of New York.
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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.

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Origin of knickerbocker

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

Sentence Examples

  • The important industries are the manufacture of scales and of other instruments of precision, and printing and publishing - the Knickerbocker Press of G.

  • Hoffman founded at New York the Knickerbocker (1833-1860), which soon passed under the control of Timothy Flint and became extremely successful, most of the leading native writers of the next twenty years having been contributors.

  • David had managed to get the Knickerbocker glory into his prayers!

  • Guests roomed at the nearby Knickerbocker Hotel just off Chicago's equally as famous, Lake Shore Drive.

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