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stagged (off) † 
adj. of pants, cut down from original size.
- 1925 A logger wearing "stagged pants" as a substitute for "plus fours," tripping lightly o'er the green with a popular society flapper as his caddy would be an inspiring sight, and a good advertisement of the democratic principles of the "Hoosiers."
- 1953 . . . they [the lumberjacks] wore pants stagged off or rolled half way to the knee so as not to be confused with mere city dwellers.
- 1956 He had the mackinaw shirt and stagged-off pants, the black felt hat, and the high caulked boots, and the bulge in his cheek was probably a wad of Shamrock.
- 1925 A logger wearing "stagged pants" as a substitute for "plus fours," tripping lightly o'er the green with a popular society flapper as his caddy would be an inspiring sight, and a good advertisement of the democratic principles of the "Hoosiers."