tap pants
plural noun
: a loose-fitting woman's undergarment of a style similar to shorts formerly worn for tap dancing
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Robbie’s character, Nellie LaRoy, wears a skimpy red dress that’s little more than a scarf and tap pants.
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Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
Nellie appears in a red silk playsuit with tap pants, perfect for crowd-surfing as well as dancing with no fewer than 250 people.
—Cathy Whitlock, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
Then tap pants, looking like silky short shorts, ruled the underwear world until the 1940s and ’50s.
—Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
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Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
Nellie appears in a red silk playsuit with tap pants, perfect for crowd-surfing as well as dancing with no fewer than 250 people.
—Cathy Whitlock, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
Then tap pants, looking like silky short shorts, ruled the underwear world until the 1940s and ’50s.
—Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
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“Tap pants.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tap%20pants. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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