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Meaning of pants

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pants

Pronunciation:/pænts//pænts/

noun

Definitions

  1. (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

  2. An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.

  3. Rubbish; something worthless.

    Example: The film was a load [or pile] of pants.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Of inferior quality, rubbish.

    Example: Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?

pants

Pronunciation:/pænts//pænts/

noun

Definitions

  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

  2. Eager longing.

  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.

noun

Definitions

  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).

  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

    Example: Pant leg

noun

Definitions

  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

pants

Pronunciation:/pænts//pænts/

verb

Definitions

  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).

  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.