strides
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɪdz
Noun[edit]
strides
- Plural form of stride
- (plural only, UK, Australia) 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, 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.
- 2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,
Verb[edit]
strides
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stride.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
strīdēs
- second-person singular future active indicative of strīdō
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
strides
- present tense passive of strida.
