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Pants (noun)
An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. from 19th c.
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Pants (noun)
An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. from 19th c.
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Pants (noun)
Rubbish; something worthless.
“You’re talking pants!”
“The film was a load [or pile] of pants.”
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Pants (adjective)
Of inferior quality, rubbish.
“Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?”
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Pant (noun)
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
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Pant (noun)
A violent palpitation of the heart.
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Pant (noun)
A pair of pants trousers or underpants.
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Pant (noun)
Of or relating to pants.
“Pant leg”
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Pant (noun)
a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England
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Pant (verb)
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.
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Pant (verb)
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
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Pant (verb)
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
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Pant (verb)
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
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Pant (verb)
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
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Pant (verb)
To heave, as the breast.
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Pant (verb)
To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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Pants (noun)
underpants or knickers.
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Pants (noun)
trousers
“corduroy pants”
“wide pant legs”
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Pants (noun)
rubbish; nonsense
“he thought we were going to be absolute pants”