Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as pantaloons, 2.
Wiktionary
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant.
- n. fashion Plural form of pant.
- v. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- adj. UK, slang of inferior quality, rubbish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
- n. Underpants.
- n. Underpants worn by women; panties.
WordNet 3.0
- n. underpants worn by women
Etymologies
- Shortened from pantaloons ("trousers"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“*runs, runs, runs fawls to nees dat hurt and pants, pants, pants* Halp!”
Told you washing machine was bad idea - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“The term 'pants' comes from the Italian word pantalone.”
“Should be out of diapers ... that poop in the pants is a dead give away to some critters.”
How old do you think a boy should be before you take him hunting?
“She loves wearing dresses & some days the only way I can get her into pants is to remind her that we do not get to climb trees in our dresses ... unless there are pants underneath.”
“Peeing your pants is a good deterent for all sane people to avoid you, including liberals.”
“I have a few favs: the girls flannel flower guitar on brownand the tomboy: cap sleeve t-heather gray, but I love them all! the smarty pants is adorable too!”
“Searching prisoners pants is one of those jobs that we all have to do, but no one particularly likes doing.”
“For example, a POW could be wearing pants from a Frenchman,”
“Life without pants is very good and life without underpants is even better sometimes.”
“We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pants’.
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
abseiling, advertising, agroboy, airco, air-condition, relooker, apart, autogrill, autostop, babykiller, baby-foot, babylift and 263 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Things that were hidden by the snow
Now that the rain has come to wash away the snow, all sorts of objects are emerging.
broken china, scarf, feathers, baked potatoes, batteries, mitten, a different mitten, job application, dinosaur toy, broken hanger, empty cigarette pack, broken beer bottle and 44 more...
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•Open List: Plural-Looking Singular N...
This came up on auroch, which is a misspelling of aurochs.
aurochs, series, corps, species, kudos, bitumen, caries, lens, crossroads, means, vertebra, scissors and 7 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Wordnik Vocabulary List
Inspired by some comments over on the Feedback profile.
bilby, feedback, Bonnie, Toonces, trebuchet, fufluns, cupcakes, umbrage, teapot, Wordie, wordie, wordnik and 54 more...
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Cool Words
Cool Words!
awesome, alpaca, waffle, schpazam!, whisper, pants, goo, pantsful, roundhand, socks, cell phone, accent and 2 more...
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Pants related words
pants, trousers, pantaloons, dungarees, jodhpurs, breeches, chinos, knickers, slacks, chaps, skort, trucks and 1 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pants.

ruzuzu Mysteries of Vernacular: Pants. (http://vimeo.com/40556736) Sep 15, 2012
blafferty Laughing so hard I can't see the screen ...
Sad to say the Star Wars list is no longer where the link takes you, and I can't find it anywhere. But here's a truncated list May 4, 2011
PossibleUnderscore Strange article too. Apr 1, 2011
chained_bear Interesting headline here. Oct 13, 2010
LadyFi In the UK, the word 'pants' is also being used as slang to mean: bad. For example, last week Eddie Izzard tweeted that the weather was pants = bad.
Schoolkids also use pants to mean 'not good'. Jun 9, 2009
chained_bear p.s. for Wordieternity, there's some pants fun going on over at we've got to get a reading on those pants, up or down!.
p.p.s. Weirdnet!! Mar 4, 2009
chained_bear Meerkat is when you make up stuff that rhymes with meerkat (or just cat), but you have to invent a clue so other people would guess your invented -kat.
I can't think of any good examples... How about, "A cat that spends a lot of time at the pub" clue might have the answer of "Beerkat."
There was one where the clue was, "A Founding Father -kat that is seen in many places," or something like that, and the answer was "A George-Washington-Slept-Here-kat."
I'm not explaining this well. Somebody pants me. Mar 4, 2009
pterodactyl Meerkat? What is Meerkat (other than a cute animal)? Mar 4, 2009
chained_bear The Pants Game!!! Wow, that sounds even more fun than Meerkat! Mar 4, 2009
reesetee And here I thought it was just my family.... Mar 4, 2009
pterodactyl I know this meme as the Pants Game -- my friends and I used to play it in college. We took turns inventing lines such as these, not just from Star Wars but from any film.
Some I still remember:
"Drop your pants!"
--The Princess Bride
"Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants!"
--The Lord of the Rings
Mar 4, 2009
plethora "A tremor in the Pants. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master."
One that's not in there but should be: "You don't want to sell me any pants. You want to go home and rethink your life." Mar 4, 2009
chained_bear "Search your pants, you know it to be true." Mar 4, 2009
rolig "The pants that can be explained are not the real pants." Mar 4, 2009
chained_bear "Difficult to see. Always in motion is the pants." Mar 3, 2009
reesetee *guffaw* Mar 3, 2009
dontcry HAR! A really productive *snort* Bah!
This is just the ticket for getting through PTA meetings with my sanity intact! Yay! Mar 3, 2009
chained_bear 278 Star Wars Lines Improved by Replacing a Key Word with "Pants." Mar 3, 2009
bilby What you always wanted to read: a brief Japanese essay on pants. Feb 11, 2009
shevek Also a verb, to pull someone's pants down by surprise. Jul 21, 2008
reesetee I just never realized what a remarkably versatile word is pants. It's...why, it's the Pants! Oct 2, 2007
chained_bear Yeah! I'll pants that! Oct 2, 2007
colleen "Pants" is also an expression of badness, such as, "I'm pants at checkers." or "This day has been absolute pants." Oct 2, 2007
reesetee Kid's a genius, John. Get him on Wordie ASAP. :-) Oct 2, 2007
john My nephew, age 3 or so, is sitting quietly in a carseat, when apropos of nothing he blurts out "Aww man, why am I wearing pants?"
I now ask myself that question all the time. Don't alway have an answer. Oct 2, 2007
reesetee Haha! Must use that some day. :-) Oct 2, 2007
kewpid A general term of annoyance.
e.g. “Aww pants!�? Oct 2, 2007
reesetee Shortened from the original pantaloons. Mar 6, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Check out the Wikipedia entry for the British use of pants. Love it. My girlfriend started calling me "Pants" after I took to referring to girls as skirts. Jan 20, 2007