pants

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Derived terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 Adjective 1.2.3.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.2 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [pænts]
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[edit] Etymology 1

Abbreviated form of pantaloons 'trousers'.

[edit] Noun

pants (plural)

1. (US, Canadian, Australian, Irish, Liverpudlian, plurale tantum) An outer garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
2. (England, Scottish, plurale tantum) An undergarment worn by men or women that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants, knickers, panties, shorts.

[edit] Synonyms

• (garment that covers the body from the waist downwards): breeks, britches, slacks, strides, trousers
• (garment that covers the genitals and often neihbouring 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

[edit] 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
• have ants in one’s pants
• scare, bore, beat, etc., the pants off
• smartiepants
• wear the pants
• with one’s pants down

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to pants (third-person singular simple present pantses, present participle pantsing, simple past and past participle pantsed)

1. 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.

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• (pull someone’s pants down): depants, de-pants, (British) keg

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pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)

1. (British, slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.

   Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

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[edit] Etymology 2

From the verb to pant (from Middle English panten) and (hence) the noun pant.

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pants (infinitive pant)

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant.

[edit] Noun

pants (singular pant)

1. (fashion) Plural form of pant.