noun
1. a state of sexual arousal
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
• Hypernyms: ↑sexual arousal
2. skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment
• Usage Domain: ↑plural, ↑plural form
• Hypernyms: ↑short pants, ↑shorts, ↑trunks
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I. noun pluralstill got hot pants for her, if you want to call that love — Mary McCarthy
: very short shorts
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/hot" pants'/ for 1; /hot" pants"/ for 2
1. very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
2. Slang. strong sexual desire.
[1965-70]
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hot pants plural noun
1. Women's very brief shorts
2. Sexual desire (for) (slang)
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Main Entry: ↑hot
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hot pants UK US noun [plural]
very small tight shorts (=short trousers) for women
Thesaurus: trousers and shortshyponym
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hot pants,
very short, close-fitting pants worn by women and girls.
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plural n. tight, brief women's shorts, worn as a fashion garment
■ informal strong sexual desire
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noun [plural]
: very short and tight shorts for women
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very short, tight women's ↑shorts
Useful english dictionary. 2012.