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shoulders

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈʃəʊldəz//
  • United States//ˈʃoʊldɚz//

The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.

noun

  1. 1

    The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.

  2. 2

    Capacity for bearing a task or blame.

    The responsibility for the job was placed on his shoulders.

  3. 3

    Also a form of shoulderplural of shoulder

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shoulderthird-person singular simple present indicative of shoulder

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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).