- Alan Whickers, Alans
- n plBritishknickers, panties. The terms are non-working-class rhyming slang, heard among young people, particularly stu-dents, in the 1970s and 1980s. The reference was to Alan Whicker, a well-known punctilious and dapper televi-sion interviewer.► There was this huge pair of Alan Whick-ers hanging on the line.
Contemporary slang . 2014.