strides

1. (UK, Australia, slang) Trousers.Examples: "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."AustraliaUKpluralplural-onlyslang