strides

plural of stride

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of stride

Noun Australia, UK

  1. 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...
    • 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. - 2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman,...
    • His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other. - 2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, page 211:

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stride