Ordos Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 ...pulling one's trousers too high up the waist? I've heard jokes about it but I've never had a quick one or two word description of it. "I pull my pants up to the sky!" is a little bit much unless your pants actually goes past your head. "If those pants were any higher they would reach your armpits!" We already have something like that: overalls. My brother knew a kid in school who wore gigantic shorts and pulled them over his shoulders and cut holes in the sides for his arms turning them into overalls! (this was in the late 1990's) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj4iy Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 High waisted pants is how I would describe it. If we were making fun of people, we would call them 'grandpa pants' or 'granny pants' or 'mom jeans' or something like that, since it's typically associated with the way older people wear their pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Crashing Waves Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Urkel pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zelticgar Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 We call that showing off your Gunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlainJeyne Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I call it "Fred Mertzing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nas! Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Where I'm from, we'd call that person an 'enthusiastic dresser'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 High waters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
north of the wall Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Harry highpants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovelikeangels Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Urkel pants. yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj4iy Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 High waters?Those are pants that are too short in the leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Those are pants that are too short in the leg.Because they are pulled up too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj4iy Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Because they are pulled up too high.No. They are high waters because your pants won't get wet in "high water". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Because you pull them up. To avoid water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sj4iy Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Because you pull them up. To avoid water.Pulling the pants up does nothing. You don't pull up your pants to keep the cuffs from getting wet.http://i.word.com/idictionary/high-water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhangel Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Being a Harry High Pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Simon Cowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 When I taught in Japan, we had a student (middle-aged dude) that we nicknamed Captain Highpants. Every time he had a lesson booked, someone would say, in portentious movie-narrator tones, "This sounds like a job for... *fanfare*...". As superpowers go, there are probably better ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddington Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I got off the bus to my local shopping centre the other day, and the young guy infront of me had the waistband of his pants below the cheeks of his arse. His trousers weren't just riding low they were mostly off, and his two rather large green and white striped underware clad buttocks bouncing up the hill from the bus stop was fairly hypnotic. I really wanted to tell him to pull his trousers up. Better too high than too low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowDogJen Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Urkel pants. Yup. Or "high waters". Funny - it's on trend right now for women's pants to be a little short (baring the oh so sexy ankles!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 'hyperbracae,' for too high, and 'hypobracae,' for sagging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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