"keep it in one's pants" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep it in one's pants.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps it in one's pants [present, singular, third-person], keeping it in one's pants [participle, present], kept it in one's pants [participle, past], kept it in one's pants [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> it in one's pants}} keep it in one's pants (third-person singular simple present keeps it in one's pants, present participle keeping it in one's pants, simple past and past participle kept it in one's pants)
  1. (informal) To refrain from trying to have sex with someone. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Sex Related terms: keep one's pants on

Inflected forms

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