strides
Noun
  1. plural form of stride
  2. (plurale tantum, UK, Australia) Trousers.
    • 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eNbeliKr-rcC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=%22pair+of+strides%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=agkGMgDld_&sig=l8miF27D_YUzHZmJx2GTbzIrYNM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nSVoUJqDKcSTiAek6IDQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pair%20of%20strides%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 97],
      So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.
    • 2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JsxT6LB3LZkC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=%22pair+of+strides%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=XtGE3-kVED&sig=g_c0h7LIktb5J6ehh8Pms13PJAw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nSVoUJqDKcSTiAek6IDQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pair%20of%20strides%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 173],
      He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
    • 2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kXVB1ODvS1cC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=%22pair+of+strides%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=vhAUSix2xq&sig=rDejuCZ_v-p3luqs5s09PbIDnR0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nSVoUJqDKcSTiAek6IDQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pair%20of%20strides%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 211],
      His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
    • 1994, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House, 2008, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=imsi-7Av2R4C&pg=PT242&lpg=PT242&dq=%22pair+of+strides%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=MYlyiIN9cB&sig=wzoXVcLoENNJ4tWcNP5zIJUwexM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nSVoUJqDKcSTiAek6IDQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pair%20of%20strides%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      I thought of Des and May′s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.
Verb
  1. third-person singular form of stride



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