The Collaborative International Dictionary
bell-bottomed \bell"-bot`tomed\ bell-bottom \bell"-bot`tom\adj. having legs that flare at the bottom; -- of trousers. bell-bottomed trousers
Wiktionary
a. A style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
WordNet
adj. (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom; "bell-bottomed trousers" [syn: bell-bottomed]
Usage examples of "bell-bottom".
The man was dressed in an ancient bell-bottom suit of tan corduroy and wore a threadbare Borsalino hat.
His hair was approaching shoulder length, and tonight he wore a cowrie-shell necklace, white Nehru shirt, and bell-bottom trousers covered with four-color images of Daffy Duck.
He threw on his duds, that is, he had Mother Truczinski brush his blue bell-bottom trousers with cold coffee, squeezed into his sport shoes, poured himself into his jacket with the anchor buttons, sprinkled the white silk scarf from the Free Port with cologne which had also ripened on the duty-free dungheap of the Free Port, and soon stood there ready to go, stiff and square in his blue visor cap.
She was in wrinkled dark blue bell-bottom slacks, rope-sole sandals, and a gray sweatshirt with a cartoon character's face on it.