slang definition?

[wordchick.livejournal.com]

Can anyone explain панти to me? I know that you can колотить, гонять, собрать, and заценить панти, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what this is supposed to mean. It sounds like salary sometimes, and sometimes like ego, but I'm just baffled. (I've been told that this word is not vulgar, so I apologize if anyone is offended). This may only be regional slang from Ukraine, but all the same, I'd like to know.

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[talkative-cat.livejournal.com]

Понты is a way of making image of something that you are not.

For example:
You earn $300/month and wear some Rolex (at least it should look like Rolex - that's the sense) to show that you're rich.
Or you "drink only absent" and deny beer as it is not cool.
Or you wear a lot of fake gold on you to look like some real rapper :))))

As far as I remember the phrase "Showing off" in English have a similar meaning.

PS: the way that losers try to convince everybody that they are not losers. And rich people can use понты to underline their exclusive status. But really rich and successfull people rarely noticed to do so :)

[talkative-cat.livejournal.com]

PPS: панти(ukr)=понты(rus). Actually in Ukrainian it should be written as 'понти', but the variant with 'A' is a type of common mistake as people write it the way they speak it :)