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Noun

bell-bottoms pl (plural only)

• (plural only) Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, a characteristic style of the 1970s.
  • ✤ Synonym: flares
  • ✤ After landing, Brody, wearing bell-bottoms and large green sunglasses, announced to assembled reporters that he would be giving away his $25 million fortune to ordinary people to spread love and “cure the problems of the world.”¹

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1. 2022 April 27, Jennifer Schuessler, “An Heir, a $25MillionGiveawayand30,000UnopenedLetters”,in\ast TheNewYorkTimes\ast ‎$^{[1]}$, →ISSN: ↩