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bells

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //bɛlz//

Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of bellplural of bell

noun

  1. 1

    Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.

  2. 2

    Variant of bell-bottomsEllipsis of bell-bottoms.

    And to him, long bell-bottoms were “arrogant.” So, whenever he was home before I left for school, he would make me stand on the top step of the six steps to the bedroom level of our house and he would inspect my bells.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bellthird-person singular simple present indicative of bell

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).