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hotpants

hotpants is the alternative form of hot pants.

Meaning of hot pants

Noun (1)

hot pants pl (plural only)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    booty shorts
  2. (plural, plural-only, slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody.
    • And if any fat little old lady with gray hair could have hot pants, she's got hot pants for you.2014, Stanley Ellin, The Dark Fantastic

Noun (2)

hot pants (plural hot pants)

  1. (archaic) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.
    • ‘That goddamned little hot pants!’ he shouted.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 89

Questions about hotpants

What is hotpants the alternative form of?
Hotpants is the alternative form of hot pants.

Words near hotpants in the dictionary

  1. Hotoru
  2. Hotot
  3. hototay
  4. Hotots
  5. hotpanted
  6. hotpants
  7. hotpatch
  8. hotpatched
  9. hotpatches
  10. hotpatching
  11. hotpath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotpants (page history and authors); hot pants (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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