Definitions

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  • noun One leg of a pair of pants.

Etymologies

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pant +‎ leg

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Examples

  • She's in so much pain, lying on her side; it's in her eyes, opening and then shutting hard, it's in her hand that clutches the corduroy pantleg of her husband.

    Alexander Trowbridge: The Inauguration: Greetings from the Mob 2010

  • She's in so much pain, lying on her side; it's in her eyes, opening and then shutting hard, it's in her hand that clutches the corduroy pantleg of her husband.

    The Inauguration: Greetings from the Mob Alexander Trowbridge 2010

  • The voice is almost unbearable, and Chowder lets his mind wander to the inchworm on his pantleg, to his ex's habit of beading, to what he might name a podcast if he felt like he should do a poety podcast.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • "Scott's the best," he said, semi-dramatically pulling up one pantleg to reveal the top of a boot.

    Kanye West, Enamored With Band of Outsiders, Tries to Give the Daily Transom the Slip 2009

  • I like the calf tattoo because when he wears long pants and rolls up the drive-side pantleg to ride, it advertises his marital status as "single."

    BSNYC Frifun Quiz Day! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • You lifted your perfectly-creased pantleg and stepped over the front-end of the stroller, stepped over the stroller, baby and all, and kept right on walking.

    An Open Letter To A Dick | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • And the frantic vultures clocked, in gangs, along the outskirts where all the other derelict animals scavenged, burrowing into sopped pantleg and sleeve, pecking out and picking clean.

    from MLKNG SCKLS 2009

  • She's in so much pain, lying on her side; it's in her eyes, opening and then shutting hard, it's in her hand that clutches the corduroy pantleg of her husband.

    Alexander Trowbridge: The Inauguration: Greetings from the Mob 2009

  • A burka-headed woman complains about Governor Jindal's new Medicaid legislation; a child tugs at her mother's pantleg impatiently, and a seemingly placid middle-aged man stares onto the linoleum with fearing blue eyes.

    Julie Fefferman: Holiday in St. Bernard 2009

  • Kepps, you are clearly in love with Obama like Chris Mathews of MSNBC who said in a Homoerotic crush that he got "a tingling up my pantleg when I heard Obama speak."

    Post Debate Roundup, Philly Edition 2009

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