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cargo shorts

cargo shorts noun: casual short trousers with pockets, originally designed for outdoor activities.

cargo shorts: casual short trousers with pockets, originally designed for outdoor activities
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Noun

cargo shorts pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Casual short trousers with pockets, originally designed for outdoor activities.
    • The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company's items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can't make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38

Questions about cargo shorts

What does cargo shorts mean?
Cargo shorts means casual short trousers with pockets, originally designed for outdoor activities.
What part of speech is cargo shorts?
Cargo shorts is a noun.

Words near cargo shorts in the dictionary

  1. cargo pants
  2. cargo plane
  3. cargo planes
  4. cargo ship
  5. cargo ships
  6. cargo shorts
  7. cargo trousers
  8. cargo vessel
  9. cargo vessels
  10. cargo-200
  11. cargoe

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