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.