hot pants
Example Sentences
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The costume she had slipped into — a green corset with poofy pink sleeves, green hot pants, tights covered in vines and knee-high boots — landed somewhere between Robin Hood and Sailor Moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2024
McCartney gave us sheeny shirts with historic white cape sleeves, neatly paired with shimmering crystal hot pants — lead-free, of course.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023
Quant created the knitted skinny rib body-hugging jumper and is even credited with designing hot pants for the first time in 1966.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
Southwest distinguished itself as a scrappy underdog airline whose flight attendants wore go-go boots and hot pants, and whose marketing grew out of the airline’s beginnings at Love Field in the Dallas area.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022
I had a friend in grammar school whose mother wore hot pants and white vinyl go-go boots just like Nancy Sinatra.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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