Pants that are around ankle length, just short enough to look a little unprofessional.

To passive-aggressively stick it to the man.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.

Short pants or short trousers are the original names for what many people sadly only know as shorts today.

Multi-gender trousers that reach somewhere in between the bottom of the kneecap and the mid calf area. For clarification, shorts on the other hand range from bottom of the kneecap to any shorter desired length.

Also, short pants are not just pants that are too short. Pants that are too short are simply just pants, or capris- usually worn by females or gays.

Claire's stupid theory that short pants are another name for shorts.