Pants

Noun



 * 1) 🇺🇸  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.
 * 2)  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.

Synonyms

 * breeks, britches, slacks, strides, trousers
 * drawers, underpants, underwear
 * boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts
 * underpants, knickers, panties

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

Verb

 * 1) To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.

Synonyms

 * depants, de-pants, keg

Adjective

 * 1)  of inferior quality, rubbish.
 * Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

Adjectives for Pants
striped; invisible; distinct; tight-fitting.

Verbs for Pants
alter—; cuff—; divest of—; don—; drape —; hitch up—; patch—; refurbish—; repair—; tailor—; —bag; —flare; —fray; — shriek; —tatter.

Thesaurus
Bermuda shorts, Capri pants, bags, bells, bloomers, blue jeans, breeches, breeks, briefs, britches, buckskins, chivarras, clam diggers, cords, corduroys, culottes, denims, drawers, dungarees, flannels, hot pants, jeans, jodhpurs, knee breeches, knickerbockers, knickers, overalls, pair of trousers, pajamas, pantalets, pantaloons, panties, peg pants, pegtops, plus-fours, rompers, sacks, shintiyan, shorts, slacks, smallclothes, tights, trews, trousers, trunks, tweeds, underpants, undies, whites

Etymology 1
Shortened from pantaloons:.

Etymology 2
From the verb pant: (from panten) and (hence) the noun pant:.

Noun

 * Arabic: بنطلون, سروال
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: bragoù
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 長褲, 长裤
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bukser,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: מכנסיים
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:


 * Lithuanian: kelnės
 * Macedonian: панталони
 * Maltese: qalziet
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pantaloni
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: briogais, triubhas
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: pantalone
 * Sicilian: quasuna
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: suruali (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pantalon
 * Tamil: குப்பாயம் (kuppaayam)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: blit


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 內褲, 内裤, 襯褲, 衬裤
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: subvestaĵo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: caleçon,  slip , culotte
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: celana dalam, cawat
 * Italian: mutande, slip ,  mutandine
 * Japanese:


 * Macedonian: гаќи
 * Maltese: qalziet ta' taħt
 * Polish:,  gacie,   gatki
 * Portuguese: cueca,  calcinha
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: drathais, drathars
 * Spanish: or ,  or
 * Swahili: chupi (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish: underbyxa, kalsonger
 * Tamil: ஜட்டி (jaDDi)
 * Volapük: niblit

Verb

 * Dutch: broekaf, de broek
 * French: déculotter


 * Italian:

Adjective

 * Dutch: brol