# pants

Pronunciation: say "PANTS" /pænts/

## Noun

1. An outer garment that covers the body from the waist down, with a separate covering for each leg and usually reaching the ankles. *(dialectal, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Northern England, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, US)*
   - Simple: Clothing that covers each leg and reaches from the waist down to the ankles.
   - _She ironed her pants the night before the interview._
   - _These pants have deep pockets on both sides._
2. Underpants; underwear worn over the genitals and often also the buttocks and the areas around them. *(UK)*
   - Simple: Underwear that covers the private parts and often the bottom.
   - _The shop sells pants and bras in the lingerie section._
   - _Under her jeans she wore cotton pants printed with tiny red hearts._
6. Something worthless; nonsense or rubbish. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: Something with no value, like nonsense or junk.
   - _The referee's decision was absolute pants._
   - _Honestly, the whole report turned out to be a load of pants._

## Verb

3. To pull down or forcibly remove another person's pants.
   - Simple: To pull someone's pants down by force, often to embarrass them.
   - _A classmate attempted to pants him during the school assembly._
   - _The teammates would pants each other as a rowdy victory ritual._
4. Third-person singular simple present indicative of pant. — third-person singular simple present indicative of pant
   - Simple: The form of pant used in the present with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the dog or water.
   - _The runner pants hard as she crosses the finish line._
   - _He pants from the heat after mowing the lawn at noon._

## Adjective

5. Of inferior quality; bad or worthless. *(slang, British)*
   - Simple: Very bad or of low quality.
   - _Critics agreed the sequel was utterly pants._
   - _The wifi at the hotel was pants and nothing would load._

## Origin

Shortened from 'pantaloons' (trousers), which was borrowed from French 'pantalon,' itself from Italian 'Pantalone': one of the principal characters in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. It is a doublet of 'pantsu,' and the verb comes from the noun.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pants (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).