# pantsing

Pronunciation: say "PANTS-ing" /ˈpæntsɪŋ/

## Noun

1. The act of pulling down another person's pants, usually as a prank or a form of bullying.
   - Simple: The act of yanking down someone's pants, usually as a joke or to bully them.
   - _The pantsing he endured at summer camp became a story he never lived down._
   - _Schools increasingly treat pantsing as harassment rather than harmless horseplay._
2. An improvised approach to writing in which an author works without a prepared outline. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A way of writing a story by making it up as you go, without a plan.
   - _Pantsing suits authors who find outlines stifling and prefer to discover the story as they write._
   - _After years of careful planning, she switched to pantsing for her latest thriller._

## Verb

3. Present participle of pants. — present participle and gerund of pants
   - Simple: Present participle of pants. Use this form for the action as it is happening now.
   - _Someone caught a kid pantsing a classmate on the playground._
   - _They kept pantsing each other throughout the camping trip._

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