greets

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of greet.

   The host greets each arriving guest at the door.

   Our dog greets visitors with excited barking.

   Note

   The -s form takes a singular third-person subject: the host greets, a strong smell greets us at the door. It almost always takes an object, because the intransitive use, meeting and exchanging salutations, is archaic. In Scotland and Northern England the same spelling can carry another meaning entirely. A child who greets there is crying, not saying hello. Keep it apart from the demoscene shout-outs, which is a plural noun.

2. 2
   nounplural

   Friendly greetings to fellow members of the demoscene, typically included in the scrolltext of a demo.

   Like a band giving shout-outs to other artists from the stage.

   Their latest production scrolled greets to half the European scene.

   He squeezed a few extra greets into the demo's final scroll.

   Similargreetings, shout-outs

   Note

   Scene slang for the shout-out list a demo scrolls past its viewers, usually in the formula greets to followed by group names. It is plural-only, so there is no single greet. The custom could be turned into a weapon. Mickael Pointier, writing in 1999, recalls scrollers posting no greets to rivals, or profane mock greets. The answer was to release a better demo and prove you were not lame.

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