strides

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of stride
2. (Australia, UK, plural, plural-only, slang)Trousers.

   “2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97, So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.”

   “He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.”

   “His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.”

   “I thought of Des and May′s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of stride