drainpipes

drainpipes
n pl
British
very tight trousers fashionable in the 1950s among teddy boys and, later, rockers. Although the terms have been fash-ionable subsequently (during the glitter craze and punk era, for instance), they are now more rare.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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