Usually means: Elaborate, stylish, often excessively ornate.
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  1. fancy-pants: Merriam-Webster
  2. fancy-pants: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fancy-pants: Wordnik
  4. fancy-pants: Wiktionary
  5. fancy-pants: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fancy-pants)

noun:  Someone fancy, silly or attractive.
adjective:  overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated
noun:  Alternative spelling of fancy pants [(US) A person wearing fancy clothing; a member of a social elite.]

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