Cryptic crossword clue
Pants for mum 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TOSH

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The straight part
We know that "Pants (rubbish)" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pants (rubbish) = tosh.
The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.
This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TOSH mean?

TOSH noun
  1. Copper; items made of copper
  2. Valuables retrieved from sewers and drains
  3. Rubbish, trash, especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash
  4. A bath or foot pan
  5. Easy bowling
  6. Used as a form of address.
TOSH verb
  1. To steal copper, particularly from ship hulls
  2. To search for valuables in sewers
  3. To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
TOSH verb
  1. To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
TOSH adjective
  1. Tight.
  2. Neat, clean; tidy, trim.
  3. Comfortable, agreeable; friendly, intimate.
TOSH adverb
  1. Toshly: neatly, tidily
TOSH noun
  1. A half-crown coin; its value
  2. A crown coin; its value
  3. Any money, particularly pre-decimalization British coinage

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