lick the pants off

English

Alternative forms

• beat the pants off

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Verb

lick the pants off (third-person singular simple present licks the pants off, present participle licking the pants off, simple past and past participle licked the pants off)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
   • 1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in The Heritage of the Sioux:

     "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"

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