pants
To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
Adjective
- Of inferior quality, rubbish.
- Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
- 'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?' 'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...' - 2015, T. R. Richmond, What She Left, Penguin Books, page 39:
- "Lee? How'd you manage to find your way here? You're pants with directions. You always get lost." - 2019, Game Freak, Pokémon Sword and Shield, spoken by Hop:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der. Italian Pantalonebor. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from...
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Noun Australia, Canada
- An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
- “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country,...
- It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner. - 1970 June 5, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The...
- Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.[…]In those days nobody wore underpants...
- An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
- I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière. - 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011,...
- Big girls get candy for dry pants. - 1976, Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, published 1988, page 127:
- 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, published 2005, page 183:
- Rubbish; something worthless.
- You're talking pants!
- The film was a load [or pile] of pants.
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baby pants boot pants capri pants cargo pants cigarette pants combat pants convertible pants cords corduroys dress pants dungarees fat pants flood pants hammer pants harem pants jazz pants jeans jogpants judgy pants khakis loon pants necropants overpants palazzo pants
Derived
ant's pants big-boy pants big boy pants big girl pants big-girl pants bitchy-pants bitchy pants bossy pants bossy-pants capri pants cargo pants catch someone with their pants down caught with one's pants down cigarette pants combat pants crap one's pants crazy-pants crazy pants fancy-pants fancy pants fat pants flood pants fly by the seat of one's pants get glad in the same pants one got mad in
Noun form of, plural
- plural of pant
Verb Entry 4
- To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- 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. - 1948, Carolina Quarterly,...
- [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. - 1980, William Hogan (author), The Quartzsite Trip, Atheneum, page 242:
- 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. - 1993, Harold Augenbraum,...
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Verb form of, indicative
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pant