Meanings
- pluralplural onlyVery brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.First known use 1970s
Her hot pants were so short, I could see her butt cheeks.
Synonyms: booty shorts
- pluralplural onlyslangA 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
- archaicSomeone (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 891 more example
“I don’t wish to hurt your feelings, but KC has always been something of a hot pants.” “Damn,” I said, “I thought maybe you had told her what a Roscoe I was in bed.”
2012, Robert B. Parker, Hush Money, page 112
Synonyms & antonyms
nounVery brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 熱褲 /热裤
- 熱褲 /热裤 (jit⁶ fu³)small shorts
Chinese Mandarin 熱褲 /热裤
- 熱褲 /热裤 (rèkù)small shorts
Dutch hotpants
- hotpantssmall shorts
Finnish mikrosortsit, mikroshortsit
- mikrosortsitsmall shorts
- mikroshortsitsmall shorts
French mini-short m micro-short
- mini-short m micro-shortsmall shorts
German Hotpants, heiße Höschen
- Hotpantssmall shorts
- heiße Höschensmall shorts
Japanese ホットパンツ
- ホットパンツ (hotto pantsu)small shorts
Korean 핫팬츠
- 핫팬츠 (hatpaencheu)small shorts
Spanish minishort, pantaloneta corta
- minishortsmall shorts
- pantaloneta cortasmall shorts
- pantaloncito calientesmall shorts
Cite this entry
hot pants. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hot%20pants
“hot pants.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hot%20pants. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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