Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The inside seam of a pant leg.
- noun The length or measurement of such a seam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
enseam .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inside seam of an article of clothing; especially, the seam that runs from the crotch of a trouser leg down to the bottom.
- noun The length of the inseam of a trouser leg.
- transitive verb To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The seam of a
trouser up the inside of the leg. - verb To
impress ormark with aseam orcicatrix .
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Examples
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Sewn along the inseam was a name label, de rigueur for any boarding-school student.
Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001
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Sewn along the inseam was a name label, de rigueur for any boarding-school student.
Salem Falls JODI PICOULT 2001
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The store includes hats, golf polos, and, of course, custom-made jean shorts with 10-inch inseam, tape-measure loop and a button front with brass zipper fly.
Knicks Fans: Get Ready to Meet 'Jorts' Ben Cohen 2011
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My neck itches and I pull up on the overalls, a movement that tugs the inseam into my crotch.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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With shorts, the shortest she'll go is a piece with a 2.5-inch inseam.
A Light Touch With Summer Denim Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011
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The capital of Delaware or the length of Humphrey Bogart's inseam is just a few clicks away.
With IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy!,' how trivial is trivia? Alexandra Petri 2011
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My neck itches and I pull up on the overalls, a movement that tugs the inseam into my crotch.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Ok. .they were a bit short in the inseam, but dang Mr. President does have some booty on him .... first time I've ever EVER wanted to watch an American president walk away so I can check out his backside.
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Gringal, I'm a size 9 and almost 6 'tall so buying jeans and pants that are long enough and fit were the first items I bought online at Amazon and surprisingly, Wal-Mart had jeans with a 35 inseam.
Page 2 2009
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A sales associate measured our inseam and pinned the pants, the only one of all the stores to do both.
Retailers Vie With Tailors to Take Off the Cuffs Kimberly Chou 2011
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