Definitions for pants

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IPA: /pænts/

Pants is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in pants (anpst).

Definitions for pants

noun

1. trousers (def 1).
2. underpants, especially for women and children; panties.
3. British. men's underpants, especially long drawers.
4. the act of panting.
5. a short, quick, labored effort at breathing; gasp.
6. a puff, as of an engine.
7. a throb or heave, as of the breast.
8. pant leg.
9. pants (defs 1, 2).

Idioms

1. wear the pants, to have the dominant role; be in charge:

adjective

1. of or relating to pants:

verb (used with object)

1. to breathe or utter gaspingly.

verb (used without object)

1. to breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
2. to gasp, as for air.
3. to long with breathless or intense eagerness; yearn:
4. to throb or heave violently or rapidly; palpitate.
5. to emit steam or the like in loud puffs.
6. Nautical. (of the bow or stern of a ship) to work with the shock of contact with a succession of waves. Compare work (def 24).

Origin of pants

1830-40; short for pantaloons

Examples for pants

“‘Pull your pants up, black people,’” said Buress, mocking Cosby from the stage.

He packed only two pairs of pants, three shirts, and one toothbrush, then set out for Africa with Karl Johnson.

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

Called "trousers" by the enlightened and "pants" by the unworthy.

“The girls I used to race with would just pull their pants around their ankles and hang off the back,” Ralphie says with I shrug.

Mr. Minturn laughed, and looked down on the torn jacket and pants.

Why should not a frog sustain life with his pants as well as a Christian?

Lyaeus wiped his hand on the seat of his pants and they proceeded.

If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.

That once I shore split his pants for him with a hame strop.