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sweat-trousers

sweat-trousers is the alternative form of sweat trousers.

Meaning of sweat trousers

Noun

sweat trousers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, uncommon) Synonym of sweatpants.
    • A stiff north wind spoiled any chance for records and Glenn Cunningham, Kansas distance ace, didn’t even take off his sweat trousers to win the mile and 880-yard runs.1934 April 15, “Glenn Cunningham, in Sweat Clothes, Runs Slow Mile”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 222, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1D, column 2
    Synonyms:
    sweatpants

Questions about sweat-trousers

What is sweat-trousers the alternative form of?
Sweat-trousers is the alternative form of sweat trousers.

Words near sweat-trousers in the dictionary

  1. sweat-cloth
  2. sweat-dappled
  3. sweat-house
  4. sweat-houses
  5. sweat-stained
  6. sweat-trousers
  7. sweatball
  8. sweatballs
  9. sweatband
  10. sweatbanded
  11. sweatbands

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