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gents'

[ jents ]

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. the gents, Informal. a men's room.


gents

/ »ćÏôɛČÔłÙČő /

noun

  1. informal.
    functioning as singular a men's public lavatory
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gents'1

First recorded in 1920–25; gent 1, -s 3
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Example Sentences

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They launched a confetti canon and a voice called out: "We'll have to stop the show, ladies and gents, sorry."

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“One of the gents has said on many occasions if he wasn’t in the group he wouldn’t be here now – the group has saved his life.”

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Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for — “The Greatest Showman” is coming to the stage.

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A show that started with pictures might make you come to wonder — following the pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin — why Picasso’s paintings of women are generally lacking in desire, quite unlike the pervy paintings of Balthus, Picabia and other cancelable midcentury gents.

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Paul Cadmus, whose retrograde male nudes are enjoying an unmerited revival in attention, appears here with yet more anemic drawings of standing and reclining musclemen, none more consequential than the gents on a Calvin Klein underwear box.

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