OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2432

pants

/pænts/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pantalones • pantalón
An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.
“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns…
braga • calzoncillo
An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
Big girls get candy for dry pants.
I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
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