- bell-bottoms
- noun plural Date: 1898 pants with wide flaring bottoms • bell-bottom adjective
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
bell-bottoms
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Bell-bottoms — is a trousers that become wider from the knees downwards. Related styles include flare, loon pants and boot cut/leg trousers. Hip huggers are bell bottomed, flare, or boot cut pants that are fitted tightly around the hips and thighs worn by men… … Wikipedia
bell bottoms — type of trousers, 1882, from BELL (Cf. bell) (n.) + BOTTOM (Cf. bottom) … Etymology dictionary
bell-bottoms — bell .bottoms n [plural] trousers with legs that get wider from the knee to the bottom = ↑flares … Dictionary of contemporary English
bell-bottoms — bell ,bottoms noun plural OLD FASHIONED pants that are very wide at the bottom of the leg … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
bell-bottoms — N PLURAL: oft N n (The form bell bottom is used as a modifier.) Bell bottoms are trousers that are very wide at the bottom of the leg, near your feet. Flares, loons and bell bottoms are back... He was clothed in maroon bell bottom trousers. Syn:… … English dictionary
bell-bottoms — noun trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s • Syn: ↑bellbottom trousers, ↑bellbottom pants • Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form • Hypernyms: ↑trouser, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bell-bottoms — bell bot·toms (bĕlʹbŏt əmz) pl.n. Trousers with legs that flare at the bottom. * * * ➡ jeans * * * … Universalium
bell-bottoms — bell bottom, style of pants in which the leg flares out below the knee … English contemporary dictionary
bell-bottoms — plural noun trousers with a wide flare below the knee. Derivatives bell bottomed adjective … English new terms dictionary
bell-bottoms — noun Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, particularly reminiscent of the 1970s … Wiktionary
