stretch pants
4
2.3
- noun
- /strɛtʃ pænts/
- US
:
pantalones elásticos
- She chose comfortable stretch pants for her yoga class.
- wear stretch pants
- black stretch pants
- a pair of stretch pants
Examples
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Given the poor quality of what she had on now (her yellow stretch pants, muddy from washing, a ragged hole in one knee, and her slippers scuffed), she obviously had no money.
Fiction book (1992) -
Louise, early 30s, a good-looking woman in stretch pants, brings Lefty a spritzer.
Fiction book (1997) -
I jumped down the steps while trying to pull on a pair of stretch pants.
Fiction book (2000) -
I was showing by then, wearing stretch pants and waddling when I went to feed the horse.
Fiction book (1997) -
And that flattery is what got us to drop 2 bills on a sports bra and stretch pants more than once or twice.
Blog text (32) -
Vicky was wearing red-and-white-checkered stretch pants.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mama sat on the couch in her red stretch pants and Dove Bar sweatshirt, her head resting on one hand, eyes closed.
Fiction book (2000) -
She was squinting into the sun and smiling, wearing four-inch heels, tight black stretch pants, and a loose flowing sweater.
Fiction book (1999) -
With each jolt of electricity, Dr. Pinsky called out numbers to a young nurse, wearing a pink smock and white stretch pants as snug as ski pants, who dutifully jotted down the figures.
Fiction book (1993) -
On Thursday, her second day at Watertower Elementary School, Gooney Bird Greene was wearing a pink ballet tutu over green stretch pants, and she had three small red grapes, an avocado, and an oatmeal cookie for lunch.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
110
1.0
Clothes worn on the lower body with separate parts for each leg
Antonyms
How Stretchy
- US
4
2.3
20
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'trousers made from stretchy, elastic fabric' is directly and literally composed from 'stretch' (capable of being stretched) + 'pants' (trousers). This adjective–noun combination follows normal compositional patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stretch pants comes from the cloth they are made of: stretch shows the fabric can pull and give, and pants means trousers, so these are trousers that stretch to fit the body. That's why the phrase means 'trousers made from a stretchy, elastic fabric that fit closely to the body.'