trou

Examples

• All

• For the costume contest, she wore a giant clown costume and her friends joked that she might drop trou to show something funny underneath.

• At the beach party, everyone was surprised when he decided to drop trou and jump into the water.

• You just drop trou whenever you feel like it.

  Doc Hollywood (1991)

• - Turn around and drop trou.

  The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

• I saw the boy head into the shrubbery, drop trou, and let go.

  Blog text (3)

• The judge turns to O, sitting in the witness chair to his left, and says, "I am sorry, Mr. President, but I am going to have to ask you to stand and drop trou..."

  Blog text (33)

• Couldn't keep from dropping trou.

  Aliens on Crack (2009)

• O.K., drop trou.

  Critical Condition (1987)

• It seemed so funny seeing someone like you holding up a pair of old-lady trou.

  Shallow Hal (2001)

• During the camping trip, he thought it would be funny to drop trou and run around in his pajamas.

Synonyms

B

britches

vstrou

• Informal

20 8.4

Loose trousers like old work pants

is slang for lower garments used casually rather than old-fashioned tailored styles

T

trouser

vstrou

• UK

6 3.0

One leg of a pair of pants or the whole pair, mainly in British English

is an informal slang word for the whole lower garment

Compounds

T

trou-de-loup

• Archaic

9.9

A sloping pit with a pointed stick in the middle to stop enemy soldiers

How Formal

dress suit

3 3.5

trousers

108 1.0

jeans

399 1.0

shorts

284 1.0

trou

• Archaic

7 9.9

Surface Forms

Etymology