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Tss

/[t͡sːː]/ intj, noun

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    A hissing sound.

    "When the woman held the sausage over the open fire, the drops of fat went tss-tsss on the coals and the flames turned a lovely blue colour."

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of toxic shock syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  2. 2
    plural of TS form-of, plural
  3. 3
    syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons wordnet
  4. 4
    Initialism of total suspended solids: a measure of water quality. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    Initialism of total sum of squares. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Etymology

Imitative.

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