longs
See also: long s
English
Noun
longs pl (plural only)
- Long trousers/pants, as opposed to shorts.
- 1957, Boys' Life, volume 47, number 5, page 81:
- We then got dressed in our assault kit; one vest, two shirts, two jerseys, one lumber jacket, one pair of shorts, one pair of pajama longs, one pair of longs, one pair of snow goggles, a balaclava, two pairs of gloves, one pair of mitts […]
- 2013, Clement Mesenas, The Last Great Strike:
- On the other hand, Bruce Camlin was one of the new generation of ang moh who knew their place in the new order, the post-colonial era. When he walked in on his first day, he wore longs made of coarse khaki and shirts that came off a supermarket peg.
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