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Abbreviation of banter.
A term used to justify hilarious yet completely inappropriate and unacceptably abusive behaviour between friends, usually males.
Typically used by British people, specifically the upper classes and teenagers.
Boy 1: ...he was completely out of it by midnight!
Boy 2: Oh, did you make sure he got home safely?
Boy 1: No, we stripped him naked, drew a massive dick on his back, shaved his pubes and left him in a cardboard box outside the police station, smiling and whistling the national anthem to himself.
Boy 2: Bants!!

Eton headmaster: You were representing our school on that debating trip chaps. We expected you to reflect its prestigious reputation as one of the most elite institutions in the country. Instead you trashed the hotel room, defaced the opposing school's minibus and were caught staggering around town in stolen tuxedos and party hats at 2am carrying a sheep. How on earth can you justify this?
Lad: It was mere bants sir.
Headmaster: Bants... as in banter? Very well then lads, off you go.
Bants by LivingLifeMyWay March 11, 2012
A shorter and more eclectic, all encompassing version of 'banter', which can be applied to almost any situation, meaning a period of recognised fun/good times.
-Lets go play some croquet for some top bants
-Oooh! Great bants!
-I'll give those bants about a 6 out of 7!
-This gossip makes for a lovely bit of bants!
-I'm so bored, can anyone think of some bants?
-Well those bants are crap
-Now that's the kind of bants I invest in!
-I'm suffering from bants withdrawal symptoms
-There's usually no bants involved in funerals, but we'll go anyway.
-Uh oh, bad bants!
Bants by lame_enc July 22, 2009
(trendier way to say 'banter')
- a good time
- fun
- cool
-great
- "The party last night was so bants!"
- "All this homework we're getting these days is not bants!"
bants by mrs. bored April 8, 2007
Be a n*gg*r to the system.
John has sold out and become a BANTS.
BANTS by Deep-State Reformer October 8, 2021
Jim: Yo Bro Are you seriously going out with that girl
Jack: Nah bro just for bants
Bants by Fredey kruger August 14, 2016
he has a really big penis
hey bants has a big penis
yea i know
jazzalot loves it
bants by man with a HUGE PENIS June 20, 2018
Like pants but bants. Sorta pronounced like "bunts" These are pants but only refered to in a way so that they seem groovier when you talk about them. It removes the formality of the object to rename the term.
Why don't you take off those bants and see what they look like lying on the floor.
bants by Big Daddy 1079 December 7, 2006