Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense trousers, present participle trousering, past tense, past participle trousered
verb
If you say that someone trousers a sum of money, you mean that they receive it, usually when they do not deserve it or should not take it.
[British, informal]
Ex-ministers are trousering £25,000 in fees simply for going to a few board meetings. [VERB noun]
trouser in British English
(ˈtraʊzə)
noun
1. (modifier)
of or relating to trousers
trouser buttons
verb
2. (transitive) slang
to take (something, esp money), sometimes surreptitiously, undeservedly, or unlawfully
Examples of 'trouser' in a sentence
trouser
You need to make people dream with a white shirt, trousers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Leather trousers are one of the catwalk's top looks.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Adding trousers means you can make the most of springtime dresses that might otherwise get their first airing in April.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I've always wanted to give leather trousers a try.
The Sun (2016)
Do you dare to wear (the new) leather trousers?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We don't ask them to turn up to work with their shirts off or in tight trousers for the women, so this represents double standard.
The Sun (2016)
The perfect partner for your leather trousers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Keep it fun by showing off stripy socks under your cropped trousers.
The Sun (2010)
He insisted tight trousers he was wearing at the time would have made it impossible.
The Sun (2015)
Key to this look is matching your trousers with your shoes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The next ten years will be trouser time.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We will do almost anything not to have to take our trousers off in a changing room.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He also refused to say what bonus he could trouser this year.
The Sun (2011)
Then he told me to take my trousers off.
The Sun (2010)
When she gets out of a lift, her trouser leg gets torn off in the door.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Wear cropped trousers on a rainy day and the worst you'll suffer is a chilly ankle.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
And those tight leather trousers should help keep the drafts out, too.
The Sun (2012)
The huge salaries mean the consultants trouser more in a week than a squaddie earns a YEAR.
The Sun (2011)
South African must have looked wistfully at the young men next to him still exploring their potential with the confidence of youth and matching white trousers.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I remember him making a yellow velvet waistcoat, which he stuck patches on and wore with white trousers and a piano tie.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I think maybe it's time for me to move on and not pull down any more people 's trousers on stage.
The Sun (2011)
Nobody but those kind of people wore trousers with such pearly stripes, or coats of such beautiful velvet, or carried tall hats as shiny as their boots.
Diana Wynne Jones CHARMED LIFE (1977)
All related terms of 'trouser'
trouser leg
the leg of a pair of trousers
trouser clip
a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
trouser press
an electrical appliance that is used for taking the creases out of trousers
trouser suit
A trouser suit is women's clothing consisting of a pair of trousers and a jacket which are made from the same material .