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bell-bottom

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bell-bot·tom (blbtm)
adj.
Having legs that flare out at the bottom: bell-bottom trousers.
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Adj.1.bell-bottom - (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom; "bell-bottomed trousers"
bottomed - having a bottom of a specified character


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The story takes place in 1970s middle-class black Philadelphia, and many artifacts of the era surface: afros, dashikis, bell-bottom jeans, and phrases like jive turkey.
Girls' clothes, on the other hand, are very often pint-sized cuts of the garments sold for teens and women: shirts that expose midriffs, bell-bottom pants, undersized backpacks.
As the stock market continues its meteoric rise, small-capitalization stocks have been like bell-bottom jeans and the pet rock: out of style.
 
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