tap pants

plural noun

: a loose-fitting woman's undergarment of a style similar to shorts formerly worn for tap dancing

Examples of tap pants in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Robbie’s character, Nellie LaRoy, wears a skimpy red dress that’s little more than a scarf and tap pants. —

Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023 Nellie appears in a red silk playsuit with tap pants, perfect for crowd-surfing as well as dancing with no fewer than 250 people. —

Cathy Whitlock, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022 Then tap pants, looking like silky short shorts, ruled the underwear world until the 1940s and ’50s. —

Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019

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