| gen. |
trousers (plural only, chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpudlian, Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles: I rolled up the legs of the pants, then I went back into the trees.) |
| school.sl. |
to pull down the trousers quickly without consent of a person, as a prank (Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable. • The other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof. • Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door. • In 2007, British Secretary of State for Education and Skills ... criticized such bullying and criticized YouTube for hosting a movie (since removed) of a teacher being pantsed, saying that such bullying "is causing some [teachers] to consider leaving the profession because of the defamation and humiliation they are forced to suffer.") |
