subs. (general).—Trousers. [Of analogous derivation to INEXPRESSIBLES; UNMENTIONABLES; MUSN’T-MENTION’EMS; UNTALKABOUTABLES, etc.] For synonyms, see BAGS and KICKS.
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 4, col. 1. Like the London dustmen, the Newmarket jockeys, the peripatetic vendors, or buyers of ‘old clo’,’ or the Albert CONTINUATIONS at one pound one, they appear to be made to measure for the same.
1853. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Digby Grand, ch. xx. To whose wonderfully-fitting CONTINUATIONS, ‘pants’ he calls them, the ‘Ananyridians’ themselves are but as a Dutchman’s drawers.
