"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 Categories (topical): Sex Related terms: keep one's pants on
    Sense id: en-keep_it_in_one's_pants-en-verb-stmEbu6L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        "To refrain from trying to have sex with someone."
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          "have sex"
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        "(informal) To refrain from trying to have sex with someone."
      ],
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        {
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        }
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        "English verbs",
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        "en:Sex"
      ],
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        "To refrain from trying to have sex with someone."
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