pants

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Rubbish; something worthless.

   You're talking pants!

4. 4
   adj

   Of inferior quality, rubbish.

   Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

5. 5
   verb

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   underpants worn by women

7. 7
   noun

   plural of pant

8. 8
   verb

   third-person singular simple present indicative of pant

Etymology

Etymology tree 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)bor. Spanish Pantaleónder. Italian Pantaloneder. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from p…