Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Pants with legs that flare out at the bottom.
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- noun plurale tantum Pants that are
flared from theknee downwards , particularly reminiscent of the 1970s.
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Examples
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He's the guy who will start wearing bell-bottoms when the cool kids are tight-rolling their jeans.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: T-PAW Behind the Times Heather Taylor-Miesle 2011
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Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback.
Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011
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And more to the point, can I borrow those bell-bottoms?
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Granted, between bell-bottoms and cheap polyester, it had moments of caricature, but what decade is fully above reproach?
That Seventies Show 2011
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President Richard Nixon sent his staff a 10-page re-election memo with suggestions for humanizing him, but "I don't believe he ever wore bell-bottoms," says Timothy Naftali , director of the Richard Nixon presidential library.
Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down Elizabeth Williamson 2011
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He's the guy who will start wearing bell-bottoms when the cool kids are tight-rolling their jeans.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: T-PAW Behind the Times Heather Taylor-Miesle 2011
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*** Like bell-bottoms and wide lapels, a financial-transaction tax is a fad that goes back to the 1970s.
The Tobin Tax Mirage 2011
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The nutty wide heels flared out psychedelically, the gold-brocade bell-bottoms were a riot, and the easy tailoring on a series of tunics and jackets over dresses offered looks for day and evening.
In Paris, Rochas and Van Noten and Surprise Christina Binkley 2010
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My father's generation had a similar bond, united through Vietnam, Woodstock, free love and bell-bottoms.
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My father's generation had a similar bond, united through Vietnam, Woodstock, free love and bell-bottoms.
mollusque commented on the word bell-bottoms
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