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pants
[ pants ]
noun
- underpants, especially for women and children; panties.
- British. men's underpants, especially long drawers.
pants
/ pænts /
plural noun
- an undergarment reaching from the waist to the thighs or knees
- Also calledtrousers a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
- bore the pants off informal.to bore extremely
- scare the pants off informal.to scare extremely
adjective
- slang.inferior
Word History and Origins
Origin of pants1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pants1
Idioms and Phrases
- wear the pants, to have the dominant role; be in charge:
I guess we know who wears the pants in that family.
More idioms and phrases containing pants
In addition to the idiom beginning with pants , also see ants in one's pants ; beat the pants off ; caught with one's pants down ; get the lead out of (one's pants) ; kick in the pants ; seat of the pants ; talk someone's arm (pants) off ; wear the pants .Example Sentences
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.
The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.
Shirtless bros with pillowy lips and cargo pants pulled down to expose tufts of pubic hair.
You're ridin' game in a tough place, as any man has to do who starts with only his pants and his head on.
He is an old, grizzled man dressed in dungaree pants, a sweater, and a woolen cap with ear flaps.
He wears the same corduroy pants that Uncle Ben gave him on his twenty-first birthday.
He was of middle age, black as anthracite coal, bald-headed, (p. 226) and was dressed in pants and coat made of old sailcloth.
He was dressed in pants made of old sailcloth, and the tattered cast-off blouse of a Union soldier.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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