[pants], (Noun)

Definitions:
- underpants or knickers

- trousers
(e.g: corduroy pants)

- rubbish; nonsense
(e.g: he thought we were going to be absolute pants)


Phrases:
- catch someone with their pants down
- catch someone with their trousers down
- fly by the seat of one's pants
- put one's pants on one leg at a time
- wear the pants
- — the pants off someone

Origin:
mid 19th century: abbreviation of pantaloons (see pantaloon)