smalls
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Is smalls a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Underwear.Examples: "He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line."; "The smalls he was wearing were tight."; "Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger."Synonyms: undiesCommonwealthIrelandUKinformalpluralplural-only
2. (Oxford University slang, dated) The preliminary examination for a degree.Examples: "You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls."Synonyms: little go, responsionsdatedpluralplural-only
3. (informal) Ellipsis of small ads.Examples: "Provincial English papers still carry their “smalls” — want ads — on the first page."abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformalpluralplural-only
Definition source: Wiktionary