hot pants

plural noun

: very short shorts

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There were men in skirt suits, men in hot pants, and the rapper Offset in a trenchcoat of hyperbolic proportions. Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025 Flipper’s Boogie Palace at LaCienega and Santa Monica was also the A lister’s night spot of its time, the roller disco home of the trendy (including a young Laura Dern), many in glitter hot pants ready for the rowdy rink. Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025 The outfit consisted of turquoise blue fringe sequined chaps belted over a pair of simple black leather hot pants. Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 28 May 2025 Notable styles include jeans with a bare back, rounded jean jackets and denim hot pants. Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot pants

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hot pants was in 1970

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“Hot pants.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20pants. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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