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nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //dɛv//

A monster, dragon, serpent, or giant.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of developerClipping of developer.

    “Our goal with this update is to more tightly tie hitboxes and hurtboxes to our character’s animations,” devs explained in the blog post.

    Some fans, naturally, quizzed the Rockstar dev as to when they might expect a second trailer to drop. However, as is classic Rockstar, there are no answers on that front.

  2. 2

    Variant of developmentClipping of development.

    game dev

  3. 3

    Variant of deviceClipping of device.

Etymology

Clipping.

noun

  1. 1

    A monster, dragon, serpent, or giant.

  2. 2

    An immortal spirit who inhabits old ruins.

Etymology

From Armenian դեւ (dew). Doublet of daeva.

Forms

plural
devs
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical 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).