Definitions
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Finally, I settle on a plain white peasant blouse and a pair of faded, elastic waist, bellbottom jeans.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Charlie waited all the way through the era of bellbottom trousers and his cigarette pants are now back in style.
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