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pedal pushers

Syllables: ped·al push·ers/ˈpɛdl̩ ˌpʊʃəz/US/ˈpɛdəl ˌpʊʃɚz/

pedal pushers noun: women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves. Also the plural of pedal pusher.

pedal pushers: women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves
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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
    • He drove beneath a canopy of elms, then along a stretch of open shore, then past the municipal docks, where a woman in pedal pushers stood casting for bullheads.1987, Tim O’Brien, “Speaking of Courage”, in The Things They Carried […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, published 1990, →ISBN, page 127

Also used as

pedal pushers is also the plural of pedal pusher.

pedal pushers meaning in Arabic

pedal pushers in Arabic

women’s casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves
ضاغط قدمي

Examples of pedal pushers in a sentence

  • Tall and handsome, Ms. [Cherry] Jones, 53, was wearing pedal pushers and a gray T-shirt but had kept on her high-buttoned Mrs.2010 September 5, Charles McGrath, “Single, and singular, women become her”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
  • I will always remember the floral broadcloth blouse, pedal pushers, sun hat, and cotton sneakers she wore while picking strawberries.2021 September 16, Charles Harbison, “Always the Gold Sandal”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic...

Forms of pedal pushers

alternative formpedal-pushers

Origin of pedal pushers

From pedal pusher (“cyclist”) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns), as they were originally worn by cyclists.

Words formed from pedal pushers

Questions about pedal pushers

What does pedal pushers mean?
Pedal pushers means women's casual trousers, usually fairly form-fitting, that end at the calves.
What is pedal pushers in Arabic?
Pedal pushers in Arabic is ضاغط قدمي. See Pedal pushers meaning in Arabic.
How do you use pedal pushers in a sentence?
Tall and handsome, Ms. [Cherry] Jones, 53, was wearing pedal pushers and a gray T-shirt but had kept on her high-buttoned Mrs.
What part of speech is pedal pushers?
Pedal pushers is a noun.
How do you pronounce pedal pushers?
Pedal pushers is pronounced /ˈpɛdl̩ ˌpʊʃəz/ (UK).

Words near pedal pushers in the dictionary

  1. pedal point
  2. pedal points
  3. pedal pub
  4. pedal pubs
  5. pedal pusher
  6. pedal pushers
  7. pedal squares
  8. pedal steel
  9. pedal steel guitar
  10. pedal steel guitarist
  11. pedal steel guitarists

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