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kickseys

kickseys noun: trousers.

Noun

kickseys pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only, slang) Trousers.
    • KICKSEYS, breeches; speaking of a purse, &c., taken from the breeches pocket, they say, it was got from the kickseys, there being no cant term for the breeches pocket. To turn out a man's kickseys, means to pick the pockets of them, […]1827, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux
    • From a Rum-Tom-Pat's kickseys I knapp'd a green twitch, / And nearly got off the gold glims from his snitch.1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 2, page 140

Forms of kickseys

alternative formkicksies

Questions about kickseys

What does kickseys mean?
Kickseys means trousers.
What part of speech is kickseys?
Kickseys is a noun.

Words near kickseys in the dictionary

  1. kicks with
  2. kicks with the other foot
  3. kicks-and-giggles
  4. kickscooter
  5. kickscooters
  6. kickseys
  7. kickshaw
  8. kickshaws
  9. kickshoe
  10. kickshoes
  11. kicksies

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