hot pants

See also: hotpants, Hotpants, and Hot Pants

English

Hot pants worn by women

Etymology

From the 1970s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hot pants pl (plural only)

1. Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.

   Synonym: booty shorts

   Her hot pants were so short, I could see her butt cheeks.

2. (slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody.
   • 2014, Stanley Ellin, The Dark Fantastic:

     And if any fat little old lady with gray hair could have hot pants, she's got hot pants for you.

Descendants

• → German: Hotpants, → heiße Höschen (calque)

Translations

small shorts

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 熱褲／热裤 (jit⁶ fu³)

  Mandarin: 熱褲／热裤 (zh) (rèkù)

• Finnish: mikrosortsit, mikroshortsit
• French: mini-short (fr) m micro-short (fr) m
• German: Hotpants (de) pl, heiße Höschen n pl
• Jamaican Creole: batty rider
• Japanese: ホットパンツ (hotto pantsu)
• Korean: 핫팬츠 (ko) (hatpaencheu)

Noun

hot pants (plural hot pants)

1. (now rare) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 89:

     ‘That goddamned little hot pants!’ he shouted.

   • 2012, Robert B. Parker, Hush Money‎^[1], page 112:

     “I don’t wish to hurt your feelings, but KC has always been something of a hot pants.”
     “Damn,” I said, “I thought maybe you had told her what a Roscoe I was in bed.”

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “hot pants”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Further reading

• “hot pants n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present