Knickerbocker

Origin

See knickerbockers.

Full definition of knickerbocker

Noun

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 SongHis knickerbocker days are gone,His last long stockings laid away:My baby has his trousers on, —My boy becomes a man to-day.----