HOT PANTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hot pants mean? 

• HOT PANTS (noun)
  The noun HOT PANTS has 2 senses:

1. a state of sexual arousal

2. skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment

  Familiarity information: HOT PANTS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOT PANTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of sexual arousal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

horniness; hot pants; hotness

Hypernyms ("hot pants" is a kind of...):

sexual arousal (the arousal of sexual desires in preparation for sexual behavior)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hot pants" is a kind of...):

short pants; shorts; trunks ((used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)