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wet one's pants

wet one's pants verb: to wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.

Verb

wet one's pants (third-person singular simple present wets one's pants, present participle wetting one's pants, simple past and past participle wet one's pants or wetted one's pants)

  1. (idiomatic) To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
    • If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, vulgar) To laugh uncontrollably.
    • Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants.
  3. (idiomatic, informal, vulgar) To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
    • He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding.

Synonyms of wet one's pants

Forms of wet one's pants

third-person singular presentwets one's pants
present participlewetting one's pants
past participlewet one's pants
pastwet one's pants
past participlewetted one's pants
pastwetted one's pants

Origin of wet one's pants

The senses referring to laughing and being afraid are extensions from the literal (urination) sense; both involve an element of variably literal or figurative nature: they are generally figurative, but if one laughs hard enough or gets frightened badly enough, the wetting may sometimes happen literally.

Questions about wet one's pants

What does wet one's pants mean?
Wet one's pants means to wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
What part of speech is wet one's pants?
Wet one's pants is a verb.
What is the past tense of wet one's pants?
The past tense of wet one's pants is wet one's pants.

Words near wet one's pants in the dictionary

  1. wet nursed
  2. wet nurses
  3. wet nursing
  4. wet one's beak
  5. wet one's clay
  6. wet one's pants
  7. wet one's whistle
  8. wet oneself
  9. wet out
  10. wet pack
  11. wet packs

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