DCHP-3

stagged (off) †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of pants, cut down from original size.

Quotations

1925
A logger wearing "stagged pants" as a substitute for "plus fours," tripping lightly o'er the green with a popular society flapper as his caddy would be an inspiring sight, and a good advertisement of the democratic principles of the "Hoosiers."
1953
. . . they [the lumberjacks] wore pants stagged off or rolled half way to the knee so as not to be confused with mere city dwellers.
1956
He had the mackinaw shirt and stagged-off pants, the black felt hat, and the high caulked boots, and the bulge in his cheek was probably a wad of Shamrock.