pants

/pænts/

noun

  1. 1

    (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

  2. 2

    An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.

  3. 3

    Rubbish; something worthless.

    The film was a load [or pile] of pants.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of inferior quality, rubbish.

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

verb

  1. 1

    To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

noun

  1. 1

    A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

  2. 2

    Eager longing.

  3. 3

    A violent palpitation of the heart.

noun

  1. 1

    A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).

  2. 2

    (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

    Pant leg

noun

  1. 1

    (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

verb

  1. 1

    To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

  2. 2

    To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

  3. 3

    To long for (something); to be eager for (something).

  4. 4

    Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

  5. 5

    To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

  6. 6

    To heave, as the breast.

  7. 7

    To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

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