Home › Words › K › knickerbockersknickerbockers/ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/knickerbockers means men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.knickerbockers is pronounced /ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/.EtymologyFrom Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.nounMen's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.e.g.“Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect.” — 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125:The formal name of the New York Knicks, a team in the National Basketball AssociationA short-lived 19th-century baseball team in New YorkDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).