Meaning & use
britches
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(informal) Trousers or breeches.
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He rolled up his britches before wading into the creek.
Grandpa always joked that the kids were getting too big for their britches.
A note on using this word
Mostly heard today in the idiom 'too big for one's britches,' meaning overly confident or arrogant.
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trousersbreeches
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