sweat trousers

See also: sweat-trousers

English

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Noun

sweat trousers pl (plural only)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of sweatpants.
    • 1934 April 15, “Glenn Cunningham, in Sweat Clothes, Runs Slow Mile”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 222, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1D, column 2:
      A stiff north wind spoiled any chance for records and Glenn Cunningham, Kansas distance ace, didn’t even take off his sweat trousers to win the mile and 880-yard runs.
    • 2013, Jonathan Robinson, “Sunday, November 20th, 2011”, in In It, published 2014, →ISBN:
      Things hadn’t got quite that bad – someone playing a computer game in his room. By himself with the volume on full-whack and his door wide open. Up I got, sweat trousers on and marched to the source of the noise to order a cease fire.
    • 2017, Jim Korkis, “Hobbies”, in Call Me Walt: Everything You Never Knew About Walt Disney, Theme Park Press, →ISBN, page 93:
      I took up wrestling, but I didn’t like having to stay for ten minutes in somebody’s crotch with the same smelly sweatshirts and sweat trousers.
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