trouser
/ˈtɹaʊzɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "'trouser leg"
- "And this is our linen trouser, sir."
- "Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me."
- "Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018."
- "Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer."
- "Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said: “To see the boss of Shell trouser more than £6million while bills are crippling families and countries scrabble around trying to ditch Russian gas is abhorrent."
Etymology
Back-formation from trousers.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/
- British English: /ˈtɹaʊzə/
Usage
- British usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
in the trouser department
one-eyed trouser snake
trouser cough
trouser department
trousered class
trouser leg
trouser monkey
trouser pants