Meaning

3 senses
  1. (plural, plural only)Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.

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

    Hotpants, heiße Höschen

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

  2. (plural, plural only, slang)A lustful attraction toward somebody.

  3. (archaic)Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.

    a state of sexual arousal

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
small shorts:

Origin

From the 1970s.

From the 1970s.

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Forms

plural: hot pants
Singularhot pants
Pluralhot pants

irregular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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