pants /pants/

1. Knickers or underpants
2. Trousers (esp N American)

1. Nonsense
2. Rubbish
3. Anything considered worthless

pantˈies plural noun

Brief knickers for a girl or woman

pants suit or pantˈsuit noun (esp N American)

A woman's suit of trousers and jacket

(be caught) with one's pants down (informal)

(to be caught) at an embarrassing and unsuitable moment, in a state of extreme unpreparedness

(fly) by the seat of one's pants

(to get through a difficult or dangerous situation) by a combination of resourcefulness and sheer luck

scare, bore, etc the pants off someone (slang)

To scare, bore, etc someone to a great degree

pant¹ /pant/

1. To gasp for breath
2. To run gasping
3. To throb
4. To wish ardently, to long, to yearn (with for)
5. (of ship's hulls, etc) to bulge and shrink successively

To gasp out (an utterance)

1. A gasping breath
2. A throb

pantˈing noun and adjective

pantˈingly adverb

pant² /pänt/ (Scot and N Eng)

1. A public fountain
2. A puddle by a midden

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