Depants

Verb

1. scanning error Misspelling of departs

de- + pants (from pantaloons)

Full definition of depants

Verb

1. (slang) to remove the trousers from someone, often by force or surprise.
• 1954, Edith Pope, River in the Wind, Scribner, page 100:"'First off we depants's you. Then we take and bounce you. You'll be pulling oyster shells out of your backside—
• 1998, Bruce Clayton, Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 0826211895, page 195:"For moronic fun we liked to sneak up behind a buddy and depants him, particularly if he was trying to sweet-talk a young college-bound girl."
• 2004, Vicki Lewis Thompson, The Nerd Who Loved Me, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312998562, page 72:"Harry had been about eight when three burly high school kids had followed him home, threatening to 'depants that little nerd.'"

Derived terms

• depantsing

Anagrams

• pantsed
• pedants
• pentads