Knickerbocker
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Knickerbocker is a Dutch surname and a type of clothing. It is a name often cited in reference to New York City--an allusion to the fictional character "Father Knickerbocker" who, according to the tale told by Washington Irving, was the head of the first socially prominent family in New York. According to Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film, generations of New Yorkers proudly claimed to be descendants of Father Knickerbocker, despite his fictional roots.
Uses of the name Knickerbocker include:
[edit] People
- Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker, a Dutch colonist of New York and grandfather of Herman Knickerbocker
- Herman Knickerbocker, a United States Representative from New York
[edit] Clothing
- Knickers, panties or women's undergarments
- Knickerbockers (clothing), men's or boys' baggy knee trousers
[edit] Sports
- The Knickerbocker Rules, an early formalization of the rules of baseball
- New York Knicks, a National Basketball Association team
- New York Knickerbockers, a defunct baseball team
[edit] Places
- Knickerbocker Avenue, a shopping strip and street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
- Knickerbocker Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a New York City Subway station
- Knickerbockers (venue), a concert venue in Lincoln, Nebraska
- Knickerbocker Hotel, a building in New York City
- Knickerbocker (housing project), a housing project in New York City
- Knickerbocker Hotel, a building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
[edit] Other
- Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pen name of American writer and diplomat Washington Irving
- The Knickerbocker, a nineteenth-century American literary magazine
- The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of books
- knickerbocker glory, an ice cream dessert served in a tall glass
- The Knickerbockers, a 1960s pop music/rock-and-roll band
- In Michael Flynn's alternate history novelette The Forest of Time, in which the Thirteen Colonies failed to unite and became independent ( and mutually antagonistic) nation states, "Knicks" is how the inhabitants of New York State (not ust the city) are called by their neighbors.
Knickerbocker is Dutch for "Marble Baker."
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