knee pants


plural noun
  1. 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 of knee pants

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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How to use knee pants in a sentence

  • Over the headstone presently came the knee pants, the faded calico waist with bone buttons.

    The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon Wilson
  • (p. 420) He did not, he later admitted, regard Roosevelt's corduroy knee-pants with favor.

  • It did so after considerable delay, and a pimply boy in knee pants showed me upstairs into the waiting-room.

  • Napoleon wore the uniform of a general officer, but with white knee pants and silk stockings.

    Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. Bartlett
  • A pair 88of knee pants, a conical grass hat, and a hemp shirt formed his entire apparel.

    An Epoch in History | P. H. Eley