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cords

nounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kɔːdz//
  • United States//kɔɹdz//

Corduroys.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of cordplural of cord

Etymology

Etymology tree English cord Middle English -es English -s English cords From cord + -s.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cordthird-person singular simple present indicative of cord

noun

  1. 1

    informalCorduroys.

Etymology

Shortening of corduroys

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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).