Strides
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Strides is a noun meaning plural of stride.
Meaning
plural of stride.
More Meanings
- (UK, Australia, slang) Trousers.
- third-person singular simple present indicative of stride
Example Sentences
His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
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.
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.
2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include step, pace, tread, footstep, march, gains.
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