hot pantsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the 1970s.

名詞

hot pants pl (複数形 only)

1. Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.

   Synonym: booty shorts

   Her hot pants were so short, I could see her butt cheeks.

2. (slang) A lustful attraction toward somebody.
   • 2014, Stanley Ellin, The Dark Fantastic:

     And if any fat little old lady with gray hair could have hot pants, she's got hot pants for you.

派生した語

• → German: Hotpants, → heiße Höschen (calque)

名詞

hot pants (複数形 hot pants)

1. (now rare) Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 89:

     ‘That goddamned little hot pants!’ he shouted.

   • 2012, Robert B. Parker, Hush Money‎^[1], page 112:

     “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.”

参照

• Tony Thorne (2014), “hot pants”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]: Bloombury

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2023), “hot pants n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

名詞

hotpants (複数形 only)

1. Alternative form of hot pants.