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hot pants

[hot pants for 1; hot pants for 2]
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noun
  1. (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
  2. (used with a singular verb) Slang. strong sexual desire.
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Origin of hot pants

First recorded in 1965–70
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British Dictionary definitions for hot pants

hot pants

pl n
  1. very brief skin-tight shorts, worn by young women
  2. slang a feeling of sexual arousalhe has hot pants for her
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Word Origin and History for hot pants

n.

"short-shorts," 1970, from hot (adj.) + pants (n.). Probably influenced by earlier sense of "sexual arousal" (1927).

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