pants
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”).
[edit] Noun
pants (plural only)
- (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:
[edit] 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
[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
- ants in one’s pants
- scare, bore, beat, etc., the pants off
- smartiepants
- wear the pants
- with one’s pants down
[edit] Translations
garment covering the body from the waist downwards
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undergarment covering the genitals
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[edit] See also
[edit] 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:
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pull someone’s pants down
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[edit] Adjective
pants (comparative more pants, superlative most pants)
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[edit] Etymology 2
From the verb to pant (from Middle English panten) and (hence) the noun pant.
[edit] Verb
pants (infinitive pant)
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant.
[edit] Noun
pants (singular pant)
- (fashion) Plural form of pant.
