Hotpants vs. Shorts
Hotpants
Hotpants or hot pants describe extremely short shorts. The term was first used by Women's Wear Daily in 1970 to describe shorts made in luxury fabrics such as velvet and satin for fashionable wear, rather than their more practical equivalents that had been worn for sports or leisure since the 1930s.
Shortsnoun
Trousers worn primarily in the warm weather that do not go lower than the knees.
Shortsnoun
Underwear bottoms.
Shortsnoun
(uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
Shortsnoun
The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran; pollard.
Shortsnoun
Short, inferior hemp.
Shortsnoun
trousers that end at or above the knee
Shortsnoun
(usually in the plural) underpants worn by men
Shorts
Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called because they are a shortened version of trousers, which cover the entire leg, but not the foot.
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