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sweat trousers

sweat trousers noun: synonym of sweatpants.

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
    • Things hadn’t got quite that bad – someone playing a computer game in his room. By himself with the volume on full-whack and his door wide open. Up I got, sweat trousers on and marched to the source of the noise to order a cease fire.2013, Jonathan Robinson, “Sunday, November 20ᵗʰ, 2011”, in In It, published 2014, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    sweatpants

Synonyms of sweat trousers

Forms of sweat trousers

alternative formsweat-trousers

Questions about sweat trousers

What does sweat trousers mean?
Sweat trousers means synonym of sweatpants.
What part of speech is sweat trousers?
Sweat trousers is a noun.

Words near sweat trousers in the dictionary

  1. sweat shop
  2. sweat shops
  3. sweat sock
  4. sweat socks
  5. sweat the small stuff
  6. sweat trousers
  7. sweat-cloth
  8. sweat-dappled
  9. sweat-house
  10. sweat-houses
  11. sweat-stained

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