- drainpipe trousers
- noun (plural) BrE trousers with narrow legs
Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.
drainpipe trousers
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drainpipe trousers — n [plural] tight trousers with narrow legs … Dictionary of contemporary English
drainpipe trousers — UK / US or drainpipes UK [ˈdreɪnˌpaɪps] / US noun [plural] British trousers with very narrow legs … English dictionary
drainpipe trousers — noun plural : tight fitting trousers that taper to the ankles * * * drainpipe trousers UK US noun [plural] british trousers with very narrow legs Thesaurus: trousers and shortshyponym Variant: drainpipes * * * drainpipe trousers … Useful english dictionary
drainpipes or drainpipe trousers — trousers with very narrow legs. → drainpipe … English new terms dictionary
drainpipe — ► NOUN 1) a pipe for carrying off rainwater from a building. 2) (drainpipes or drainpipe trousers) trousers with very narrow legs … English terms dictionary
drainpipe — noun 1》 a pipe for carrying off rainwater or liquid refuse from a building. 2》 (drainpipes or drainpipe trousers) trousers with very narrow legs … English new terms dictionary
trousers — noun (esp. BrE) ⇨ See also ↑pants ADJECTIVE ▪ long, short (BrE) ▪ I was still in short trousers (= still only a boy) at the time. ▪ baggy, loose ▪ … Collocations dictionary
drainpipe — noun Drainpipe is used before these nouns: ↑jeans, ↑trousers … Collocations dictionary
drainpipe — n. 1 a pipe for carrying off water, sewage, etc., from a building. 2 (attrib.) (of trousers etc.) very narrow. 3 (in pl.) very narrow trousers … Useful english dictionary
drainpipe jeans — n pl British very tight trousers fashionable in the 1950s among teddy boys and, later, rockers. Although the terms have been fash ionable subsequently (during the glitter craze and punk era, for instance), they are now more rare … Contemporary slang
