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Definition for: pants

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English

Etymology

Abbreviated form of pantaloons.

Noun

pants ( plural only; not used in singular form )

  1. ( US , AU , UK ) A garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, usually as far as the ankles.
  2. ( UK , slang ) A garment worn by men or women that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body.

Synonyms

Translations

garment covering the legs

  • Bosnian: pantalone f . pl .
  • Breton: bragoù m . ( pl . brageier)
  • Chinese (Mandarin): 裤子 kuzi
  • Czech: kalhoty f . pl .
  • Dutch: broek
  • Esperanto: pantalono sg .
  • Finnish: housut pl .
  • French: pantalon m . sg .
  • German: Hose f . sg .
  • Indonesian: celana
  • Italian: pantaloni m . pl .
  • Japanese: ズボン (zubon)
  • Korean: 바지 (baji)
  • Polish: spodnie pl .
  • Russian: брюки pl .
  • Serbian:
    Cyrillic: панталоне f . pl .
    Latin: pantalone f . pl .
  • Slovak: nohavice f . pl .
  • Slovene: hlače f . pl .
  • Spanish: pantalón m . sg . or pantalones m . pl .
  • Swahili: suruali (noun 9/10)
  • Swedish: byxa sg .
  • Tagalog: pantalon
  • Turkish: pantalon sg .

garment covering the genitals

  • Chinese (Mandarin): 内裤 neiku
  • Dutch: onderbroek
  • Esperanto: subvestaĵo
  • Finnish: alushousut, pikkuhousut
  • French: caleçon m . ( for men ), slip m . ( for men and women ), culotte f . ( for men and women )
  • German: Unterhose f . , Schlüpfer m .
  • Indonesian: celana dalam, cawat ( informal )

plural of "pant" See pant

Verb

pants

  1. third-person singular indicative present tense of the verb to pant

Verb

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

Infinitive
to pants

Third person singular
pantses

Simple past
pantsed

Past participle
pantsed

Present participle
pantsing

  1. To pull one's pants down.
  2. To pull someone else's pants down
  3. To quickly snatch the hem or back pockets of a pair of pants and give a sharp pull downwards.

Adjective

pants ( comparative more pants , superlative most pants )

  1. ( UK ) ( slang ) Of inferior quality.
    Your mobile is pants — why don't you get one like mine?

Other Translations for "pants"

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Binary 1110000 1100001 1101110 1110100 1110011
Hex70616E7473
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