The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PANTS
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More clues leading to the result PANTS
- Blows from boxers
- . Awful underwear
- Rubbish vegetation left out
- Rubbish vessels taking on water at the midsection
- Garment tenor’s wearing split from behind
- Rubbish boxers?
- Criticise poet, initially rubbish
- Useless dad not taken seriously at first
- Participant seems a bit breathless
- Criticise author Eliot, rubbish!
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What does PANTS mean?
PANTS noun- (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
- An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
- Rubbish; something worthless.
- Of inferior quality, rubbish.
- To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
- Eager longing.
- A violent palpitation of the heart.
- A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
- (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
- To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
- Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- To heave, as the breast.
- To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.