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turtles

nounverbcommon in dialogue

Gloves.

noun

  1. 1

    slangGloves.

  2. 2

    Also a form of turtleplural of turtle

Etymology

(gloves): Rhyming slang, from turtle doves.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of turtlethird-person singular simple present indicative of turtle

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).