bell-bottom

Examples

• All

• I was very young, dressed in hip-hugging bell bottoms and a fitted silk shirt with little boots.

  Blog text (12)

• Quickly, she stuffed her hand deep into the pocket of her bell-bottom jeans.

  Fiction book (1996)

• I mean, maybe you got those bell bottom jeans, those boots with the fur.

  The Minimalists

• When he came home, I was wearing long hair and bell-bottom jeans.

  Academic text (2004)

• This was part of a trend, like disco music and bell bottoms.

  Fiction book (2001)

• There were too many bell bottoms, too many tie-dye dresses, too many peace symbols.

  Fiction book (1995)

• "Why are the poor always so unstylish?" she says, commenting about his outdated bell-bottom trousers.

  Academic text (1990)

• She wore her glasses, which shrank the size of her eyes, her hair in a stumpy ponytail, and her bell-bottom jeans from fifteen years ago.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Hendrix afros and drooping mustaches and bell bottoms and love beads and bells.

  Fiction book (1998)

• She loves wearing stylish bell-bottom jeans when she goes out with friends.

Synonyms

B

bell-bottomed

vsbell-bottom

• Archaic

1 4.6

Trousers or pants with legs that get wider from the knee down and become wide at the bottom

is the hyphenated form without the -ed ending

B

bellbottom

vsbell-bottom

• Archaic

3.5

Trousers that become wider from the knee down

is the hyphenated form separating the two parts

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology