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Meanings of pedal pusher in English

Snug trousers ending at the calves; worn by women and girls.

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Examples for "toreador pants"
Examples for "toreador pants"
1
He can already be credited with trends such as tulip skirts and slim, high-waisted toreador pants, not to mention the current vogue for tunics.
The Irish Times
2
Somehow she had managed to pour her capacious backside into some tight red toreador pants and to stretch a clinging blouse over her bosom.
The Lost Continent
Usage of pedal pusher in English
1
By the time the Vernon Velo crew arrived at the meeting point in Whitworth Road, their senior pedal pusher was panting hard.
The Irish Times
2
She wanted to get home and out of her tight pedal pushers.
Bake sale murder
3
I raised a leg to put on my pedal pushers and fell down.
We are all welcome here
4
She had shown up in pedal pushers and high heels.
Salem’s Lot
5
Suralee threw my pedal pushers and blouse at me.
We are all welcome here
6
I looked at the dress again, weighed my options, then took off my pedal pushers and blouse.
We are all welcome here
7
I grew up near Chatham, a place with a high density of kids in Burberry-print pedal pushers, who like to get rowdy.
The Guardian
8
Her mother was wearing a pair of white pedal pushers and a sleeveless shirt, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
On mystic lake
9
She expertly navigated a transition from glossy-lipped teen in pedal pushers to chained-up spider lover, Slash impersonator and smoke-machined stripper in about eight years.
The Guardian
10
"I can see you went all out," said Sue, checking out Lucy's white pedal pushers and striped top.
Bake sale murder
11
"I thought you said tomorrow!" Here I was, dressed in donated mustard-yellow pedal pushers and a pink sleeveless blouse with a spaghetti-sauce stain.
We are all welcome here
12
"Annette, you lookin' mighty spiffy in those blue pedal pushers," she told me one day, handing me a glass of ice-cold orange NeHi pop.
God don't like ugly