knickerbockers

Meanings

1. Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

1. plural of Knickerbocker; New Yorkers, particularly descendants of its original Dutch settlers
2. The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball Association
3. A short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New York

Etymology

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.