How to pronounce bell-bottoms
American English pronunciation
BEL-bot-umz
- IPA
- /ˈbɛlˌbɑtəmz/
- Syllables
- BEL · bot · umz (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What bell-bottoms means
Pants that flare out wide from the knee down
In a sentence: Grandma laughed when she found her old bell-bottoms in the attic.
Where it comes from: It joins bell and bottoms, because each pant leg spreads out at the bottom like a bell. They were a big fashion in the 1970s.
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