cons

Pluralconses

Formsconses, consing, consed

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of con. Use it when there is more than one.

   We made a list of the pros and cons before buying the car.

   The old cons in the prison yard knew every guard by name.

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2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of con. Use it after he, she or it.

   He cons tourists out of their money near the train station.

   My little brother always cons me into doing his chores.

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   In the computer language Lisp, a small unit holding two links, used mostly to build lists.

   Like a train car that carries one thing and is hooked to the next car.

   Each cons in the list points to the next one.

   The program ran out of memory after making millions of conses.

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4. 4
   verbtransitive

   In programming, to add an item to the front of a list, or build a list by doing that many times.

   First, cons the number 5 onto the empty list.

   The loop consed each new word onto the list as it read the file.

   Similarprepend

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