Trouser

Definition: Trouser

Trouser

Noun

1. Garment designed for or relating to trousers; "in his trouser's pocket"; "he ripped his left trouser on the fence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trouser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)

Crosswords: Trouser

Over-the-calf socks look better when you're dressed because there's no gap between trouser and sock when you cross your legs. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Little Bears Trouser (reference)

• Pull Trouser Swamp: The Settlement Maps a Lowland Maya Community Cluster in Northern Belize (reference)

• The New Trouser Press Record Guide (reference)

• The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock: The All-New Fifth Edition of the Trouser Press Record Guide (5th Ed) (reference)

• The Trouser Press Record Guide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Trouser Jazz (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Corby 5500 Original Trouser Presser (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He drove the blade again and again into the ground and smelled it again, wiped it on his trouser leg, and felt the edge with his thumb.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Travel

Ukraine

A suit or dress trouser with blazer and tie is suitable for men, while appropriate dress for women can extend from a suit to dress slacks and blazer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "trouser": lower part of the trouser leg ♦ median lacing of a trouser codend ♦ trouser braid ♦ trouser cod end ♦ trouser codend ♦ trouser cuff ♦ trouser leg ♦ trouser suit. Additional references.

Beginning with "trouser": trouser-and, trouser-arousers, trouser-bottom, trouser-bottoms, trouser-cuffs, trouser-dropping, trouser-fly, trouser-front, trouser-fronts, trouser-happy, trouser-leg, trouser-legs, trouser-material, trouser-pockets, trouser-press, trouser-presses, trouser-slashing, trouser-stretcher, trouser-stretching, trouser-stripe, trouser-suit.

Albanian

presë për pantallona (trouser-stretcher), këmbë pantallonash (trouser leg). (various references)

Bulgarian 

материя за панталони (trousering), плат за панталони (trousering). (various references)

Danish

opsplittet mellemlaeg (trouser shim), midtersnøring af bukseposer (median lacing of a trouser codend), galon (galloon, trouser braid), buksepose (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend). (various references)

Dutch

tweelingkuil (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), U-vormige wig (trouser shim), overlangse naad (median lacing of a trouser codend), kousenband (trouser braid). (various references)

Finnish

täytelevy (trouser shim), prässit (trouser creases), lovettu täytelevy (trouser shim), kaksoisperän väliseinä (median lacing of a trouser codend), kaksoisperä (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), housupuku (trouser suit), housuntasku (trouser pocket), housunprässit (trouser creases), housunlahje (trouser-leg). (various references)

French

pantalon de loisir (leisure trouser), galon de pantalon (trouser braid), cul pantalon (trouser cod end, trouser codend), couture médiane d'un cul pantalon (median lacing of a trouser codend), cale en u (trouser shim). (various references)

German

Hose (breeches, hose, pantaloon, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references)

Greek 

κορδέλλα παντελονιών (trouser braid), σάκκος-παντελόνι (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), προσθήκη με σχισμή (trouser shim), ενδιάμεση ραφή ενός σάκκου-παντελόνι (median lacing of a trouser codend), ταινία παντελονιών (trouser braid). (various references)

Hungarian

nadrágkosztüm (pantsuit, trouser suit), nadrágakasztó (trouser-stretcher), lovaglónadrág (full trousers, jodhpurs, peg-top trouser, riding breeches), felül bő alul szűk lovaglónadrág (peg-top trouser). (various references)

Italian

spessore ad u (trouser shim), sacco a pantalone (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), passamano per calzoni (trouser braid), cucitura lungo la linea mediana di un sacco a pantalone (median lacing of a trouser codend). (various references)

Manx

troosyn (knickers, pants, slacks, tights, trews). (various references)

Pig Latin

ousertray

Portuguese

saco duplo geminado (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), saco duplo (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), porfio mediano do saco duplo geminado (median lacing of a trouser codend), galão para calças (trouser braid), espaçador (distance piece, spacer, trouser shim), costura mediana de um saco duplo (median lacing of a trouser codend). (various references)

Russian 

брючный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nogavica (leg, trouser leg), manžeta na pantalonama (trouser cuff). (various references)

Spanish

de pantalón. (various references)

Swedish

slitsat schimsbleck (trouser shim), listning av byxkasse (median lacing of a trouser codend), kasse i byxtrål (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), dubbelkasse (double codend, double codends, trouser cod end, trouser codend), "dubbel codend". (various references)

Turkish

pantolon-ceket takım (trouser suit), paça (calves-foot, cuff, lower part of the trouser leg, neat's foot, Trotter). (various references)

Turkmen 

gonз (trouser-leg). (various references)

Ukrainian

привласнювати (appropriate, arrogate, cabbage, embezzle, grab, peculate, poach, pocket, pouch, snoop, take). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trouser": trousers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trouser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: krauser, Tiousso, trauser, trisure, Troezen, trooner, Trosser, Trounsem, trous, trousee, trouserly, trouses, trousses, trousseu, trouver, Trowse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rouster, routers, tourers.

-1 letter: ouster, outers, resort, retros, roster, rouser, router, routes, sorter, sourer, souter, stoure, tourer.

-2 letters: euros, outer, outre, retro, roset, rotes, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, ruers, sorer, store, stour, surer, tores, torse, torus, tours, touse, truer, trues.

-3 letters: eros, errs, erst, euro, ores, orts, ours, oust, outs, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots.

+1 letter: courters, grouters, posturer, reroutes, resprout, robuster, rousters, torquers, tortures, tressour, troupers, trousers.

+2 letters: bourtrees, burrstone, courtiers, drugstore, frotteurs, obtruders, outriders, overtures, overturns, posturers, proestrus, prosateur, protrudes, pterosaur, reductors, requestor, resoluter, resprouts, retrousse, roturiers, superport, supporter, surrogate, tabourers, torturers, tressours, trimerous, troublers, trouncers, trouveres, trouveurs, turnovers, uprooters.

+3 letters: arboretums, burrstones, corrugates, corrupters, corruptest, couturiers, covertures, drugstores, durometers, forecourts, irresolute, mortuaries, numerators, occurrents, outriggers, outworkers, overstruck, overstrung, overtrumps, persecutor, poulterers, prosateurs, prosecutor, protrusive, pterosaurs, raconteurs, recontours, recounters, regulators, requestors, resprouted, retouchers, retrovirus, roisterous, rudderpost, southerner, stertorous, stubborner, superports, superstore, supporters, surrogated, surrogates, tambourers, understory, unrestored.