hot pants

See also: hotpants, Hotpants, and Hot Pants

English

Etymology

From the 1970s.

Noun

hot pants pl (plural only)

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.
(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.

Descendants

→ German: Hotpants, → heiße Höschen (calque)

Translations

small shorts

Chinese:
Cantonese: 熱褲／热裤 (jit⁶ fu³)

Mandarin: 熱褲／热裤 (zh) (rèkù)
Finnish: mikrosortsit, mikroshortsit
French: mini-short (fr) m micro-short (fr) m
German: Hotpants (de) pl, heiße Höschen n pl
Jamaican Creole: batty rider
Japanese: ホットパンツ (hotto pantsu)
Korean: 핫팬츠 (ko) (hatpaencheu)

Noun

hot pants (plural hot pants)

(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, 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.”

References

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

Further reading

Jonathon Green (2024) “hot pants n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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