short pants

What does short pants mean?

short pants means "(used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee".

What is another word for short pants?

Close synonyms include shorts, trunks. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short pants a common word?

short pants is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for short pants come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.