lederhosen

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During Saturday's fire building competition, members of Troop 621, dressed in German lederhosen, offered words of encouragement for their troopmate Shana Fong as she struggled to get the fire going.

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  1. plural noun Leather shorts, often with suspenders, worn by men and boys, especially in Bavaria.

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  • I don't see Charley as a dab hand with a picklock Always got a trick or two up his lederhosen, your Hun. —  Reginald Hill
  • Even though there will still be those who refuse to listen to reason when it comes to global warming (such as Senators Jim Bunning, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and Mitch McConnell, those lederhosen-clad crazy kids from the former states of Kentucky and Tennessee) …. —  HYSTERICAL RAISINS
  • Obama dresses gerbils in lederhosen - damning photographic evidence —  IMAO
  • Sven wears Swiss lederhosen, which I don't think Swedes ever wore. —  John K Stuff
  • You really haven't lived until you've heard a medley of James Bond themes played, in counterpoint, by an Austrian saxophone quartet wearing lederhosen - in Chinatown. —  Starbulletin Headlines
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  1. German, from Middle High German lederhose : leder, leather (from Old High German ledar) + hose, trousers (from Old High German hosa; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots).
 

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