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pedal-pushers

pedal-pushers is the alternative form of pedal pushers.

pedal-pushers is the plural of pedal-pusher.

Meaning of pedal pushers

Noun

pedal pushers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves.
    • Medium close shot of a tall slender girl of fifteen with the face of a Nordic madonna. no, proclaims the apron attached to the waistband of her ragged pedal pushers; no, no, the patches over her budding breasts.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 96

Questions about pedal-pushers

What is pedal-pushers the alternative form of?
Pedal-pushers is the alternative form of pedal pushers.

Words near pedal-pushers in the dictionary

  1. pedal stools
  2. pedal stroke
  3. pedal strokes
  4. pedal to the metal
  5. pedal-pusher
  6. pedal-pushers
  7. pedal-stool
  8. pedal-stools
  9. pedalavia
  10. pedalavium
  11. pedalboard

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