hot pants

== English == === Etymology === From the 1970s. === Pronunciation === === Noun === hot pants pl (plural only) Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls. Synonym: booty shorts (slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → German: Hotpants, → heiße Höschen (calque) ==== Translations ==== === Noun === hot pants (plural hot pants) (now rare) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite. === References === Tony Thorne (2014), “hot pants”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]: Bloomsbury === Further reading === “hot pants n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present