"hot pants" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hot pants.wav
Etymology: From the 1970s. Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} hot pants pl (plural only)
  1. Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls. Tags: plural, plural-only Synonyms: booty shorts Translations (small shorts): 熱褲 /热裤 (jit⁶ fu³) (Chinese Cantonese), 熱褲 /热裤 (rèkù) (Chinese Mandarin), mikrosortsit (Finnish), mikroshortsit (Finnish), mini-short m micro-short [masculine] (French), Hotpants [plural] (German), heiße Höschen [neuter, plural] (German), batty rider (Jamaican Creole), ホットパンツ (hotto pantsu) (Japanese), 핫팬츠 (hatpaencheu) (Korean), short corto [masculine] (Spanish), minishort [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hot_pants-en-noun-Lnx~bra4 Categories (other): English pluralia tantum, Clothing Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 41 15 44 Disambiguation of Clothing: 78 10 12 Disambiguation of 'small shorts': 97 3
  2. (slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody. Tags: plural, plural-only, slang
    Sense id: en-hot_pants-en-noun-pGMnaWnC Categories (other): English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 41 15 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hot-pantsed
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hot pants.wav Forms: hot pants [plural]
Etymology: From the 1970s. Head templates: {{en-noun|hot pants}} hot pants (plural hot pants)
  1. (now rare) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite. Tags: archaic
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0

Alternative forms

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    "hotpants"
  ],
  "word": "hot pants"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hot pants meaning in English (6.0kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_description/20250107",
  "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
  "path": [
    "hot pants"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "hot pants",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.