hot pants

[ hot-pants for 1; hot-pants for 2 ]

/ ˈhɒt ˌpænts for 1; ˈhɒt ˈpænts for 2 /

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noun

(used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.

(used with a singular verb)Slang.

strong sexual desire: He has hot pants for her.
a person, especially a woman, with strong sexual desire.

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Origin of hot pants

First recorded in 1925–30 for def. 2; and in 1965–70 for def. 1

Words nearby hot pants

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How to use hot pants in a sentence

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
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Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux

British Dictionary definitions for hot pants

hot pants

pl n

very brief skin-tight shorts, worn by young women

slang a feeling of sexual arousalhe has hot pants for her

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