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

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep it in one's pants.ogg 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
    Sense id: en-keep_it_in_one's_pants-en-verb-stmEbu6L Categories (other): Sex Disambiguation of Sex: 90 10
  2. (informal, by extension) To keep or stop oneself from further lusting over something (usually something not inherently sexual or lewd, like a fictional character), especially at a time and place that would be inappropriate for it. Tags: broadly, informal Related terms: keep one's pants on
    Sense id: en-keep_it_in_one's_pants-en-verb-ogDB5WiG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87

Inflected forms

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