TRUNKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trunks mean? 

• TRUNKS (noun)
  The noun TRUNKS has 1 sense:

1. (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee

  Familiarity information: TRUNKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUNKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

short pants; shorts; trunks

Hypernyms ("trunks" is a kind of...):

pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trunks"):

Bermuda shorts; Jamaica shorts ((used in the plural) short pants that end at the knee)

hot pants (skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment)

lederhosen (leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria)

 Context examples 

The clock struck ten while the trunks were carrying down, and the general had fixed to be out of Milsom Street by that hour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We crouched as motionless as the trunks behind us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was put into a baggage-car by the master, chained in a corner in the midst of heaped trunks and valises.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Soon the flaccid organ began to slowly expand and show such a tendency to upward movements that Challenger fastened the cords which held it to the trunks of the surrounding trees.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of pine—roof, walls, and floor.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Far away between the black lines of trunks the quick glitter of steel marked where the Company pursued its way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers used gas chambers placed around tree trunks to estimate fluctuations in emissions at a small scale.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

They each took one of Peggotty's trunks, and we were going away, when Mr. Barkis solemnly made a sign to me with his forefinger to come under an archway.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The resinous oil tapped from the trunks of Copaifera reticulata.

(Copaiba Oil, NCI Thesaurus)