strides

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• Rhymes: -aɪdz

strides

1. plural of stride

strides pl (plural only)

2. (UK, Australia, slang) Trousers.
   • 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,

     So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.

   • 2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, page 173:

     He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.

   • 2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, page 211:

     His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.

   • 1994, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House, published 2008, unnumbered page:

     I thought of Des and May′s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.

strides

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stride

• dissert, disters, redists

strīdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of strīdō

strides

1. passive form of stride

strides

1. present passive of strida