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.
N-UNCOUNT
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