knee pants

plural noun

knee-length pants, especially those formerly worn by boys considered too young to wear full-length trousers (often used as a term symbolizing youth): I haven't felt this way since I was in knee pants.

Origin of knee pants

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby knee pants

knee brace, knee breeches, knee drop, knee jerk, knee joint, knee pants, knee presentation, knee rafter, knee reflex, knee spavin, knee-chest position

Example sentences from the Web for knee pants

  • Then you put on knee-pants, and afterward youth's long trousers.

    Certain Success |Norval A. Hawkins

  • They turn out one hundred and twenty dozen “knee-pants” a week, for which the manufacturer pays seventy cents a dozen.

    How the Other Half Lives |Jacob A. Riis