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pantcuff en · NOUN

Etymology

From pant + cuff.

Meanings

1. (rare) A cuff at the bottom of a pair of pants.
   • The depressed person confessed that when whatever supportive friend she was sharing with finally confessed that she (i.e., the friend) was dreadfully sorry but there was no helping it she absolutely had to get off the telephone, and had verbally detached the depressed person's needy fingers from her pantcuff and returned to the demands of her full, vibrant long-distance life, the depressed person always sat there listening to the empty apian drone of the dial tone feeling even more isolated and inadequate and unempathized-with than she had before she'd called. 1998 January, David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, in Harpers Magazine, page 58:

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