pant
pant
- n the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
- n (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
- n a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
- v breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily - v utter while panting, as if out of breath
- So, most hot summer days, the local peasants sit on concrete stoops, pant legs hiked up to their thighs, fanning themselves with the latest propaganda broadsheet from Beijing and .
- Then, after Some Like It Hot, she made Let's Make Love early this year, and gossip columns began to pant with rumors of a Monroe affair with Co-Star Yves Montand.
- His fashion signatures the billowing white shirt, or the structured pant suit became favorites of Hollywood icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Julia Roberts.