Depants vs Deplants - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between depants and deplants

is that depants is scanning error misspelling of lang=en while deplants is third-person singular of deplant.

(head)

(scanning error)

de- + pants (from pantaloons)

(es)

(slang) to remove the trousers from someone, often by force or surprise.

* 1954 , Edith Pope, River in the Wind , Scribner, page 100:

"'First off we depants s you. Then we take and bounce you. You'll be pulling oyster shells out of your backside—'

* 1998 , Bruce Clayton, Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood , University of Missouri Press, ISBN 0826211895, page 195:

"For moronic fun we liked to sneak up behind a buddy and depants him, particularly if he was trying to sweet-talk a young college-bound girl."

* 2004 , Vicki Lewis Thompson, The Nerd Who Loved Me , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312998562, page 72:

"Harry had been about eight when three burly high school kids had followed him home, threatening to 'depants that little nerd.'"

* depantsing

* Dictionary.com entry

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(head)

(deplant)

(en verb)

To take up plants; to transplant.

(Webster 1913)