knee pants

knee pants

noun
knee-length pants, especially those formerly worn by boys considered too young to wear full-length trousers (often used as a term symbolizing youth): I haven't felt this way since I was in knee pants.

Origin:
1865–70
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Knee pants is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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knee pants

noun
trousers ending above the knee [syn: breeches
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