Definitions

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  • noun Trousers to be worn over a similar inner garment.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ trousers

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Examples

  • Way to go to get variation in yr weekend... turned out fun cold, of course -- a fair amount of my falling over involved grabbing lots of snow or having it fall down the back of my trousers, as a result of which I had a large wet patch when I took off my overtrousers, and ridiculously wet gloves, not having brought actual waterproof ones or anything.

    catching up oxfordslacker 2004

  • We had two layers of baselayer socks, thermal clothes all over, jeans, overtrousers, four layers of top clothing, thermal ski gloves, scarves,

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • We had two layers of baselayer socks, thermal clothes all over, jeans, overtrousers, four layers of top clothing, thermal ski gloves, scarves,

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • The rules said I had to have taped-seam overtrousers for the mountain marathon (The OMM) I did a week ago, and seeing how little use they get, I wasn't prepared to spend big money

    Uphilldowndale 2009

  • Alex'd say they doing pretty well and having been denied his 10\% discount and then having to be fitted with xxl overtrousers the tone was lets say one of dissapointment so far!

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • My Featherlite trousers were so light that I didn’t really notice them and didn’t even make that annoying swishing sound that overtrousers are prone to.

    The proof of the plodding 2009

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