Pants vs. Pant

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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.

  • Pants (noun)

    An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. from 19th c.

  • Pants (noun)

    Rubbish; something worthless.

    “You’re talking pants!”

    “The film was a load [or pile] of pants.”

  • Pants (adjective)

    Of inferior quality, rubbish.

    “Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?”

  • Pant (noun)

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

  • Pant (noun)

    A violent palpitation of the heart.

  • Pant (noun)

    A pair of pants trousers or underpants.

  • Pant (noun)

    Of or relating to pants.

    “Pant leg”

  • Pant (noun)

    a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England

  • 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.

  • Pant (verb)

    To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

  • Pant (verb)

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

  • Pant (verb)

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

  • Pant (verb)

    To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

  • Pant (verb)

    To heave, as the breast.

  • Pant (verb)

    To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Wiktionary
  • Pants (noun)

    underpants or knickers.

  • Pants (noun)

    trousers

    “corduroy pants”

    “wide pant legs”

  • Pants (noun)

    rubbish; nonsense

    “he thought we were going to be absolute pants”

Oxford Dictionary

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