Definitions

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  • adjective (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom

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Examples

  • How else do you explain the fact that you are able to both continually crane your neck to look through pub windows and dance a sailor's hornpipe at the drop of a pair of bellbottom trousers?

    Underfoot 3 Peter Ashley 2008

  • The ex-lawmaker was known in Congress for his distinctive toupee, wild hairstyle, bellbottom pants and one-minute floor speeches punctuated with the Star Trek catch phrase, "Beam me up."

    James Traficant Comeback Denied: Ex-Con Fails To Get On Ohio Ballot 2010

  • She was wearing plaid bellbottom pants, and the neckline of her pastel blue shirt had exaggerated collar points that I thought until now was just a costume effect for hippie outfits.

    Stupid Cupid Rhonda Stapleton 2009

  • Or maybe it was on the Ed Sullivan Show, where a sunflower-Afro and bellbottom-jean-wearing Michael led The Jackson 5 through the paces of I Want You Back.

    Barry Michael Cooper: Michael Jackson Agonistes: An American Pop'era In Three Acts 2009

  • Finally, I settle on a plain white peasant blouse and a pair of faded, elastic waist, bellbottom jeans.

    Elizabeth Esse Kahrs: The Trouble in My Mirror 2008

  • Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters.

    Archive 2007-08-01 GayandRight 2007

  • It seems like a fad that has come and is now going, fading into the sunset with bellbottom jeans and long sideburns.

    Speedlinking 8/31/07 William Harryman 2007

  • Let me break that down for you, starting at the bottom and working up: White socks covered by a pair of black socks, black boots (weight approximately that of a dead, wet raccoon - each boot) called boondockers, dungarees (bellbottom jeans) over a pair of blue silky shorts, over a pair of underpants (white and with your name stenciled on the ass region).

    toastcrumbs Diary Entry toastcrumbs 2005

  • I recall images of Iran in 1975-76 of bellbottom jeans and platform shoes under filmy chiffon chadors, of BMWs and Mercedes in the face of glaring poverty.

    At The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts 1996

  • Charlie waited all the way through the era of bellbottom trousers and his cigarette pants are now back in style.

    Getting Away with It for Forty-Four Years 1980

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