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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing" [syn: bloomers, pants, drawers, knickers]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. colloq. 1 Brit. underpants or knickers. 2 US trousers or slacks. Phrases and idioms: bore (or scare etc.) the pants off colloq. bore, scare, etc., to an intolerable degree. pants (or pant) suit esp. US a trouser suit. with one's pants down colloq. in an embarrassingly unprepared state. Etymology: abbr. of PANTALOONS

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Pants are a piece of underwear which have two holes to put your legs through and elastic around the top to hold them up round your waist or hips. (BRIT; in AM, usually use underpants) I put on my bra and pants. = knickers N-PLURAL: also a pair of N 2. Pants are a piece of clothing that covers the lower part of your body and each leg. (AM; in BRIT, use trousers) He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt. N-PLURAL: also a pair of N 3. If you say that something is pants, you mean that it is very poor in quality. (BRIT INFORMAL) The place is pants, yet so popular. 4. If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot. (INFORMAL) You'll bore the pants off your grandchildren... PHRASE: v PHR [emphasis] 5. If you fly by the seat of your pants or do something by the seat of your pants, you use your instincts to tell you what to do in a new or difficult situation rather than following a plan or relying on equipment. PHRASE: V inflects 6. to wear the pants: see wear

Foolish Dictionary

Trousers' Country Cousins.

Moby Thesaurus

Bermuda shorts, Capri pants, bags, bells, bloomers, blue jeans, breeches, breeks, briefs, britches, buckskins, chivarras, clam diggers, cords, corduroys, culottes, denims, drawers, dungarees, flannels, hot pants, jeans, jodhpurs, knee breeches, knickerbockers, knickers, overalls, pair of trousers, pajamas, pantalets, pantaloons, panties, peg pants, pegtops, plus-fours, rompers, sacks, shintiyan, shorts, slacks, smallclothes, tights, trews, trousers, trunks, tweeds, underpants, undies, whites