HOT PANTS Definition & Meaning

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noun

(used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
(used with a singular verb) Slang.
1. strong sexual desire:
  He has hot pants for her.
2. a person, especially a woman, with strong sexual desire.

hot pants

plural noun

very brief skin-tight shorts, worn by young women
slang.
a feeling of sexual arousal
he has hot pants for her

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Origin of hot pants¹

First recorded in 1925–30 hot pants fordef 2; and in 1965–70 hot pants fordef 1

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“That was a song about fashion changes in the ’60s with bell-bottom hip-huggers and high-heeled boots and all the different styles of clothes the girls were wearing — hot pants and all that stuff.”

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Models purposefully walked down the runway in flowing suits of crushed velvet and satin, matching leather mini-shorts and jackets, sequined hot pants and tank top sets in yellow smiley graphics and graffiti print.

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It was just extra in all the best ways: leather studded hot pants, more insanely capacious bags, floor-length leopard gowns, wispy feathers and sequins styled with knee-high boots.

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The costume she had slipped into — a green corset with poofy pink sleeves, green hot pants, tights covered in vines and knee-high boots — landed somewhere between Robin Hood and Sailor Moon.

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A 9-year-old girl wearing makeup, jewelry and an orange bikini top and hot pants does a back-bend split outside a garage.

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