What does knickers mean?
Knickers means (colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers..
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/ˈnɪkəz/ · noun
(colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers..
Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […].
He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers.
The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?
Use knickers when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Knickers means (colloquial, now US, rare) Knickerbockers..
Common synonyms include drawers, breeches, bloomers, pants.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads […].
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