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scenes

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//siːnz//
  • United States//sinz//

A funny or incredible and usually chaotic situation.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA funny or incredible and usually chaotic situation.

    On Twitter Kathryn Myhill described the ‘absolute scenes in Morrisons’ which had sold out of pasta, flour and chopped tomatoes.

    With just five minutes left on the clock, a near carbon copy of the first goal followed, this time with Jack Grealish playing the ball across goal for Harry Kane to stoop down low and head in his first goal of the tournament. Scenes. Absolute scenes. The drinks carried on long into the night after that one.

  2. 2

    Also a form of sceneplural of scene

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of scenethird-person singular simple present indicative of scene

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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).