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knicks

knicks noun: knickers.

Noun

knicks pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only) Knickers.
    • “People never notice you when you are looking half- decent. During the sales I was in a communal changing room and was stripped down to my knicks — and not my best car accident knickers either — when a woman said, ‘Aren’t you that woman off the telly?’ and everyone stared.”2003 February 9, “The Greenham Common girl done good”, in The Times
    • Despite all the attention focused on Beth, when Gossip performs, they are without doubt a band: Nathan and Hannah Billie, the drummer, being just as cartoon charismatic as Beth herself, though perhaps less likely to strip to their knicks and dive-bomb the crowd.2009 July 5, Miranda Sawyer, “Everything that you think is weird is normal to me”, in The Observer
  2. (plural, plural-only) Lycra pants (usually short) used by cyclists.

Proper noun capitalized: Knicks

Knicks

  1. The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.

knicks meaning in Bengali and Nepali

knicks in Bengali

অন্তর্বাস

knicks in Nepali

निक्सहरू

Origin of knicks

Abbreviation of knickers.

From the fictional Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving.

Phrases with knicks

Questions about knicks

What does knicks mean?
Knicks means knickers.
What is knicks in Bengali?
Knicks in Bengali is অন্তর্বাস. See Knicks meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is knicks?
Knicks can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near knicks in the dictionary

  1. knickknackery
  2. knickknacks
  3. knickknacky
  4. knickpoint
  5. knickpoints
  6. knicks
  7. knicks off
  8. knicky-knocky-nine-doors
  9. knickzone
  10. Knidian
  11. Knidos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knicks (page history and authors); Knicks (page history and authors); knicks (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knicks (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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