pants
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(Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
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An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
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Rubbish; something worthless.
“The film was a load [or pile] of pants.”
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Of inferior quality, rubbish.
“Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?”
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A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
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Eager longing.
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A violent palpitation of the heart.
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A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
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(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
“Pant leg”
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(Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
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To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
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To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
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To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
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Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
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To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
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To heave, as the breast.
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To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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