knickerbocker

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see also: Knickerbocker

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Noun

knickerbocker (uncountable)

1. (archaic, used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickerbockers.
   • 1892, The Twentieth Century

     ...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.

   • 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.

2. A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.

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Knickerbocker

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Noun

knickerbocker (plural knickerbockers)

1. (archaic or historical) A New Yorker, particularly a scion of its old Dutch families
2. (basketball, uncommon) A player for the New York Knicks
3. (baseball, historical) A player for the New York Knickerbockers

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