Cousins

//ˈkʌzn̩s// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English.
  2. 2
    plural of Cousin form-of, plural
Noun
  1. 1
    The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective). plural, plural-only, slang

    "[T]he grounded fieldmen, the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always – they saw the question solely in operational terms. […] They saw the shotgun marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker game."

  2. 2
    plural of cousin form-of, plural
  3. 3
    plural of Cousin form-of, plural
  4. 4
    Alternative letter-case form of cousins (“the American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective)”). alt-of
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of cousin form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs). The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).

Etymology 2

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs). The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).

Etymology 3

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs). The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).

Etymology 4

A Middle English surname from Norman terminology. From Anglo-Norman, from Old French cusin, cosin, cousin (“cousin”) (French cousin, cousine). Literally, “familial relative”.

Etymology 5

From Cousin + -s.

Etymology 6

From Cousin + -s.

Etymology 7

See cousins.

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