An American English occupational term for a tailor or garment worker who specializes in making trousers (pants). The word is historically significant in the context of the American garment industry, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when ready-made clothing manufacturing was expanding rapidly. Pantmakers, often working in sweatshop conditions in cities like New York, were central to labor movement history. The term is now largely obsolete as a job title but appears in historical records and labor history.
His grandfather had worked as a pantmaker on the Lower East Side, piecing together trousers in a crowded tenement workshop.
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(US) someone who makes pants (trousers).
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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