| Pants Article | Pants are a type of clothing for the lower body. In American English, the term refers to trousers, while in British English, it is a shortened form of underpants. In North American English, pants are a long outer garment worn at the hips, which in British English are called trousers. Trousers or "pants" can either be synonymous with pants or have a more formal connotation. Therefore, all trousers are pants, but not vice-versa: jeans are pants but not trousers, while slacks (formal pants) are both. This definition is consistent with other languages such as the Spanish pantalones, which is contrasted with pantalones cortos (shorts, or literally "short pants"). |
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