pant leg

noun

1. a leg of a pair of pants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pant leg¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

With a guide or instructor, you’ll practice skills like walking in crampons so you don’t snag a pant leg or kick yourself in the calf and where to play your belayer so they’re out of harm’s way, away from falling ice.

From Outside Online

Instead of watching TV after dinner, we rolled up our pant legs and compared the size of our calf muscles.

From Outside Online

Recycled insulated lining keeps you warm even if you take a fall in wet snow, and gaiters with tough elastic keep snow out of your boots and pant legs.

From Popular-Science

Live or dead plants, such as grasses, moss, ferns, leaves, and pine needles can be stuffed down pant legs and into shirts.

From Popular-Science

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph put their best tapered-pant-leg forward in this mock ad for the infamous pants.

From The Daily Beast

Somebody had scuffed his right shoe in getting out and now he pulled up the pant leg of his dark grey suit to study it ruefully.

From Project Gutenberg

I pinned a sock to my pant leg, found a pop bottle in a trash pile.

From Project Gutenberg

When she saw our baboon she yelled "fire," and the officers of the boat pulled him out by the hind leg, and tore my pant leg off.

From Project Gutenberg

To the other was given a pant-leg, or something of this kind, stuffed with paper or rags.

From Project Gutenberg

If I have to tell you again about walkin' up my pant leg I aim to break your head in.

From Project Gutenberg