Knickerbocker definition
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
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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.
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