knicker

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Noun

knicker (uncountable)

1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickers.

   knicker elastic, knicker drawer, knicker thief

   A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.

2. knickerbockers
   • 1983, David Lanier Lewis, ‎Laurence Goldstein, The Automobile and American Culture (page 58)

     Country club men had reinstated the knicker, adding four inches in length […]

   • 1925, The Clothier and Furnisher (volume 106, page 79)

     A sock worn in the regulation fashion, under the knicker, looks neatest and permits the proper full flare of the knicker.

Noun

knicker (plural knickers)

1. (dated, dialect, UK, US) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble in games.

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