Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having flaring bottoms: as, bell-bottomed trousers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having legs that flare at the bottom; -- of trousers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective A style of
pants in which the end of eachpantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
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Examples
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While spinning these songs three decades later, we can imagine the bell-bottomed, long-haired men idolizing the rock legends oceans away.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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With regard to her own uniform, which includes anything bell-bottomed or wide-legged, Zoe is vocal about her perennial love for platform shoewear and an excess of vintage.
Rachel Strugatz: Rachel Zoe's Studio: See What's Inside (PHOTOS) Rachel Strugatz 2010
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While spinning these songs three decades later, we can imagine the bell-bottomed, long-haired men idolizing the rock legends oceans away.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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Sideburned men in bell-bottomed jeans dashed from building to building, cradling Kalashnikovs, in a life-or-death game of hide-and-go-seek.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Sideburned men in bell-bottomed jeans dashed from building to building, cradling Kalashnikovs, in a life-or-death game of hide-and-go-seek.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The Great Dane with the telltale speech impediment ( "Ruh-roh, Raggy") and voracious appetite (Scooby snacks!) long ago became iconic, as did Scoobert's bell-bottomed and bewhiskered slacker of an owner, the easily spooked Shaggy, and the rest of Mystery Inc. 's sleuthing youths: cravat-happy Fred, the fashionable Daphne and the ever-deductive Velma.
Cartoon of the Day: Google unveils five SCOOBY-DOO doodles for Halloween Michael Cavna 2010
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While spinning these songs three decades later, we can imagine the bell-bottomed, long-haired men idolizing the rock legends oceans away.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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She ends it in hiking boots and a pair of bell-bottomed slacks emblazoned with the American flag.
Something Happening Here Melanie Kirkpatrick 2010
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Sporting sagging baggies that display immaculately white briefs, colorful boxers, and sometimes more, the disaffected of today -- poorly educated, un-and-under employed, filled with desire for a bountiful life, notwithstanding dire prospects -- are they any more unreasonable than their rebellious afro-wearing, bell-bottomed grandparents?
Crack Attack! 2010
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Sporting sagging baggies that display immaculately white briefs, colorful boxers, and sometimes more, the disaffected of today -- poorly educated, un-and-under employed, filled with desire for a bountiful life, notwithstanding dire prospects -- are they any more unreasonable than their rebellious afro-wearing, bell-bottomed grandparents?
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