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short pants

n. trousers that end at or above the knee [syn: shorts, trunks]

Usage examples of "short pants".

He used to preach hellfire and brimstone in this Little Lord Fauntleroy suit with short pants.

John said nothing, just stood there quietly in his too-short pants and his prison slippers.

At the moment Hickok uncovered his eyes and glanced toward the shadowed comfort of the aisle, a slightly overweight woman came down it tugging on the ear of a little boy in short pants.

I was wearing short pants, and I stuffed stones into the front pockets until it must have looked like I was carrying ostrich eggs.

This result was perhaps best expressed in a little ditty he had learned at his father's knee when he was still in short pants: Beans, beans, the musical fruit!

On the couches, draped like debauched pixies, was an assortment of slimy fellows in Day-Glo short pants and short-sleeved shirts, sucking on cigarettes and chatting about sexual matters I'd prefer not to have to repeat.

Derek, wearing short pants, shirtless, was just starting off to the stream with a bar of soap.

A fat man in a shiny white shirt and brightly colored, flowered short pants stared at them.

Then the aluminum glow of dawn disappeared and he saw himself again in short pants, wearing a tie around his neck, and he saw his father leading him into the tent on a splendid afternoon, and he saw the ice.