pant leg

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noun

a leg of a pair of pants.

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Also called pant.

Origin of pant leg

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby pant leg

pantie girdle, panties, pantihose, pantile, pantisocracy, pant leg, panto, pantofle, pantograph, pantology, pantomime

How to use pant leg in a sentence

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.
Your 101 Guide to Ice Climbing|eriley|November 17, 2021|Outside Online
Instead of watching TV after dinner, we rolled up our pant legs and compared the size of our calf muscles.
Chronic Illness Had Me Stuck in Grief. My E-Bike Helped Me Find Joy Again.|mmirhashem|October 11, 2021|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.
Best snow pants to keep you cozy (and active) all winter long|PopSci Commerce Team|February 25, 2021|Popular-Science
Live or dead plants, such as grasses, moss, ferns, leaves, and pine needles can be stuffed down pant legs and into shirts.
10 winter survival tips everyone should know|Tim MacWelch|December 15, 2020|Popular-Science

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph put their best tapered-pant-leg forward in this mock ad for the infamous pants.
SNL’s Best Mother’s Day Sketches|The Daily Beast Video|May 11, 2012|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.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
I pinned a sock to my pant leg, found a pop bottle in a trash pile.
The Biography of a Rabbit|Roy Benson
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.
Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus|George W. Peck
To the other was given a pant-leg, or something of this kind, stuffed with paper or rags.
In The Ranks|R. E. McBride
If I have to tell you again about walkin' up my pant leg I aim to break your head in.
The Lady Doc|Caroline Lockhart