Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Trousers; pants.

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  • noun New Zealand, US trousers
  • noun US rowing spandex shorts

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Examples

  • Moi, je m'en fous, Je reste dans mon trou and I say: "I hear the truth in the mouth of the vagrant minstrel, one who possibly has no _trou_ wherein to lay his head."

    Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

  • Internet pranksters set up a series of links tied to the term trou du cul to his profile, confusing Google's search motor into making the site its top result for anyone hunting for the phrase.

    IrishExaminer.com 2010

  • If you haven’t read them, they all make essen­tially the same point — old-school journalism’s in trou­ble.

    … And Another Thing « Snarkmarket 2005

  • Do you see the second pigeon, hidden in the "trou" to the left? un poireau (pwah-roh) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Do you see the second pigeon, hidden in the "trou" to the left? un poireau (pwah-roh) noun, masculine

    poireau - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Do you see the second pigeon, hidden in the "trou" to the left? un poireau (pwah-roh) noun, masculine

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Yet another Swiss connection, and the one that taught me the meaning of "trou" so long ago, is the wonderful painting by Dominique Appia "Entre les Trous de la Memoire".

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Yet another Swiss connection, and the one that taught me the meaning of "trou" so long ago, is the wonderful painting by Dominique Appia "Entre les Trous de la Memoire".

    rigolo - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Do you see the second pigeon, hidden in the "trou" to the left?

    poireau - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Do you see the second pigeon, hidden in the "trou" to the left?

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

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