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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as pantaloons, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An outer garment worn by men and women that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
  2. n. An undergarment worn by men or women that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants, knickers, panties, shorts.
  3. n. Plural form of pant.
  4. v. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
  5. v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of pant.
  6. adj. of inferior quality, rubbish.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.
  2. n. Underpants.
  3. n. Underpants worn by women; panties.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. underpants worn by women

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  • 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

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