English Explanatory Dictionary

pull up your pants

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull up, pants.

Word forms

pull up your pants

Etymology

A reference to sagging among African-Americans, and its associated moral panic.

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