The difference between Pants and Shorts

When used as nouns, pants means an outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles, whereas shorts means trousers worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.

Pants is also verb with the meaning: to pull someone's pants down.

Pants is also adjective with the meaning: of inferior quality, rubbish.

check bellow for the other definitions of Pants and Shorts

  1. Pants as a noun (plural only, chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Ireland, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester):

    An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

  2. Pants as a noun (plural only, chiefly, UK):

    An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.

  3. Pants as a noun (UK, slang):

    Rubbish; something worthless.

    Examples:

    "You're talking pants!"

    "The film was a load [or pile] of pants."

  1. Pants as an adjective (British, slang):

    Of inferior quality, rubbish.

    Examples:

    "Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?"

  1. Pants as a verb:

    To pull someone's pants down; to forcibly remove someone's pants.

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  1. Shorts as a noun:

    Trousers worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.

    Examples:

    "Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts."

  2. Shorts as a noun:

    Underwear bottoms.

    Examples:

    "After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts."

  3. Shorts as a noun (uncountable):

    Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.

  4. Shorts as a noun:

    The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

  5. Shorts as a noun:

    Short, inferior hemp.

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