hot pants
English edit
Etymology edit
From the 1970s.
Noun edit
- Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.
- Synonym: booty shorts
- Her hot pants were so short, I could see her butt cheeks.
- (slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody.
- 2014, Stanley Ellin, The Dark Fantastic:
- And if any fat little old lady with gray hair could have hot pants, she's got hot pants for you.
Descendants edit
- → German: Hotpants, → heiße Höschen (calque)
Translations edit
small shorts
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Noun edit
- (now rare) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 89:
- ‘That goddamned little hot pants!’ he shouted.
- 2012, Robert B. Parker, Hush Money[1], page 112:
- “I don’t wish to hurt your feelings, but KC has always been something of a hot pants.”
“Damn,” I said, “I thought maybe you had told her what a Roscoe I was in bed.”
References edit
- Tony Thorne (2014) “hot pants”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “hot pants n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang