parts
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Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /pɑːts/
- Rhymes: -ɑːts
Noun
parts
- plural of part
- (plural only) Intellectual ability or learning.
- He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
- (plural only, usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region.
- 1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241:
- We intend being at Leamington before long, unless some change in the weather should make our stay in these parts more tolerable.
- 1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241:
- (plural only, euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
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