skinny jeans

English

A number of men wearing skinny jeans

Skinny jeans typically worn by women

Pronunciation

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Noun

skinny jeans pl (plural only)

2. (clothing) A style of form-fitting jeans with very narrow, straight legs, which often taper inward at the ankles.

   She ordered a pair of plus-size skinny jeans online.

   • 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:

     Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway

Synonyms

• skinnies
• drainpipes
• drainpipe trousers
• stovepipes
• stovepipe trousers

Translations

form-fitting jeans

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小腳褲 / 小脚裤 (xiǎojiǎo kù)

• Finnish: pillifarkut (fi) pl, pillihousut (fi) pl
• French: ^{(please verify)} pantalon tube m
• German: Röhrenhose f, Röhrenjeans f
• Hebrew: סקיני ג׳ינס m pl
• Hungarian: csőnadrág (hu)
• Japanese: スキニージーンズ (sukinī jīnzu)
• Korean: 스키니진 (ko) (seukinijin)
• Swedish: stuprörsjeans (sv) n pl