plus fours

1. 1.

   men's baggy knickers hanging below the knees; formerly worn for sports (especially golf)

   Broaderbreeches

   plural · golf

Questions about plus fours

What does plus fours mean?

plus fours means "men's baggy knickers hanging below the knees; formerly worn for sports (especially golf)".

Is plus fours a common word?

plus fours is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.