Emulate a hot dog

The answer

PANT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PANT answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PANT

Every other clue in this collection answered by PANT, most used first.

• Huff and puff - used 152 times, most recently in 2026
• Breathe heavily - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Gasp for air - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Breathe hard - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Gasp - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Puff - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Make like a hot dog? - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Fight for breath - used 11 times, most recently in 1991
• Act like a hot dog - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Breathe quickly - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Breathe rapidly - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Breathe like a dog - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• What hot dogs do - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Breathe loudly - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Gasp for breath - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Labored breath - used 7 times, most recently in 2013

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• "Garfield" dog - ODIE, used 236 times
• "Beetle Bailey" dog - OTTO, used 213 times
• Dorothy's dog - TOTO, used 166 times
• "Peter Pan" dog - NANA, used 141 times
• Hot spot - OVEN, used 135 times
• Hot - SEXY, used 130 times

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