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bins

nounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • //bɪnz//

Binoculars.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of binplural of bin

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of binthird-person singular simple present indicative of bin

noun

  1. 1

    slangBinoculars.

    However, it's not easy to categorise a birder by their bins - all you can tell is whether they're rich.

  2. 2

    slangEyeglasses or spectacles.

Etymology

Abbreviation of binoculars.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).