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English
Etymology
Blend of man + capris.
Noun
manpris pl (plural only)
- (plural only, slang) Capri pants that are worn by men.
2006 July 9, Jim Ryan, “Federer's game has no weaknesses”, in SportingNews:The young Spaniard's vivacity and flair is the perfect foil to Federer's stoicism and meticulousness. Hell, I'm even beginning to come around on the manpris (OK, maybe not).
2007 June 13, Olivia Barker, Mary Cadden, “Dumpy dads yield fashionable fathers”, in USA Today, page 6D:Her husband has one uniform to accompany his always untamed mane, and it's not a particularly flattering one: He's addicted to black Hush Puppies ("he will not wear any other shoe but these — even in the summer"), the color black and, perhaps most insidiously, "manpris" — capri pants for men.
2007 July 27, Sarah van Schagen, Sarah K. Burkhalter, “From Bend It to Blow It”, in Grist Magazine:But Leo's fanny pack was a Titanic mistake ... and we can only hope it's near the 11th hour for manpris.
2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:But modern American manpris? I don't understand them. Unless you're doing something creative with your socks […] the midcalf length typically just makes a man look sloppy—and shorter.
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