strides
Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.
Meaning · English
Trousers.
Register: slang
Examples
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.
Quoted attestation: 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “strides” mean?
Trousers.
Is “strides” formal or informal?
strides is generally slang.