seagulls
- 1Plural of seagull.
Flocks of seagulls gathered near the harbor at dawn.
The seagulls scattered the moment the lifeguard blew her whistle.
Note
A regular plural that carries more than birds. Among football fans in the UK, seagulls is slang for the supporters or members of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. The same spelling also serves as a present-tense verb. In Australian, British and New Zealand slang, a player who seagulls drifts into the back line instead of holding position. A boater who seagulls is running a British Seagull outboard.
seagulls is a form of seagull
seagull, noun: A popular name for any of various gulls (family Laridae), white birds often with a dark back, with long pointed wings and short legs. Full entry
- Forms
- seagullseagulls plural
- Spelling
- seagull → seagulls: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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