Pants Definition
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Pants (US, Canada, Australia, etc.)Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”).
Noun
pants (plural only)
Pants (England, Scotland)- (chiefly North America, Australian, New Zealand, South Africa) An outer garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]
- (chiefly UK) An undergarment worn by men or women that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. [from 19th c.]
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage 2005, p. 183:
- As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
- 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage 2005, p. 183:
Synonyms
- (garment that covers the body from the waist downwards): breeks, britches, slacks, strides, trousers
- (garment that covers the genitals and often neighbouring body parts): drawers, underpants, underwear
- (for men) boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts
- (for women) underpants, knickers, panties
Derived terms
- all mouth and pants, all mouth and no pants
- by the seat of one’s pants (drive by the seat of one’s pants, fly by the seat of one’s pants), seat-of-the-pants
- ants in one’s pants
- scare, bore, beat, etc., the pants off
- smartiepants
- wear the pants
- with one’s pants down
Translations
garment covering the body from the waist downwards
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See also
- Pants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
pants (third-person singular simple present pantses, present participle pantsing, simple past and past participle pantsed)
- To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- 1948, University of California, Carolina Quarterly, page 47:
- Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
- 1980, William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242:
- [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
- 1993, Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, page 174:
- Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
- 1948, University of California, Carolina Quarterly, page 47:
Synonyms
Translations
pull someone’s pants down
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Adjective
pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)
Translations
of inferior quality
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Etymology 2
From the verb to pant (from Middle English panten) and (hence) the noun pant.
Verb
pants (infinitive pant)
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant.
Noun
pants (singular pant)
- (fashion) Plural form of pant.
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Trousers are an item of clothing worn from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth stretching across both as in skirts and dresses). The word trousers is used in the UK and Ireland, but some other English-speaking countries such as Canada, South Africa, and the United States can also refer to such items of clothing as pants. Additional synonyms include slacks, strides, kegs or kex, breeches (sometimes britches / ˈ b r ɪ tʃ ɨ z /), or breeks. Shorts are similar to trousers, but with legs that come down only to around the area of the knee, higher or lower than the knee depending on the style of the garment.
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