English

Proper noun

Knicks

1. The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knɪks/

Etymology 1

From the knicken ‎(“to bend, to fold”).

Noun

Knicks m ‎(genitive Knickses, plural Knickse)

1. curtsey

Etymology 2

Noun

Knicks

1. plural of Knick
2. genitive singular of Knick

English

Noun

knicks pl ‎(plural only)

1. (Britain, colloquial) Knickers.
   • 2003, "The Greenham Common girl done good", The Times, 9 Feb 2003:

     “People never notice you when you are looking half- decent. During the sales I was in a communal changing room and was stripped down to my knicks — and not my best car accident knickers either — when a woman said, ‘Aren’t you that woman off the telly?’ and everyone stared.”

   • 2009, Miranda Sawyer, "Everything that you think is weird is normal to me", The Observer, 5 Jul 2009:

     Despite all the attention focused on Beth, when Gossip performs, they are without doubt a band: Nathan and Hannah Billie, the drummer, being just as cartoon charismatic as Beth herself, though perhaps less likely to strip to their knicks and dive-bomb the crowd.

1. (cycling) Lycra pants (usually short) used by cyclists.