pubs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of pub.

   Many country pubs now serve full meals as well as beer.

   Her faculty profile lists a dozen pubs in peer-reviewed journals.

   Note

   Several nouns share this plural. In Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth it is the everyday word for public houses; as a clipping it stands for publications or publishers, as in a researcher's list of pubs; in slang it can even mean public servers. Context sorts them out, and the same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular present of pub.

   He pubs most weekends when he's back home visiting his parents.

   The lab usually pubs its results online before the conference.

   Note

   Two informal verbs share this form, and an object tells them apart. Without one, it means going out to the pub; with one, as in pubs a paper, it is a quick way of saying publishes. Neither belongs in formal writing, where goes to the pub and publishes are the safe choices.

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