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sponge-bag pants

sponge-bag pants is the alternative form of spongebag pants.

Meaning of spongebag pants

Noun

spongebag pants pl (plural only)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only) Synonym of spongebags.
    • The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants.1934 July 1, Lucius Beebe, “This New York”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 299, St. Louis, Mo., page 3B
    Synonyms:
    spongebags

Questions about sponge-bag pants

What is sponge-bag pants the alternative form of?
Sponge-bag pants is the alternative form of spongebag pants.

Words near sponge-bag pants in the dictionary

  1. sponge tax
  2. sponge taxes
  3. sponge toffee
  4. sponge up
  5. sponge-bag
  6. sponge-bag pants
  7. sponge-bags
  8. sponge-brained
  9. spongeable
  10. spongebag
  11. spongebag pants

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