shrugs
- 1Plural of shrug.
His questions were met with shrugs from the entire committee.
A series of shrugs around the table told her no one wanted to volunteer.
Note
A plural that serves two quite different nouns: the shoulder gesture of indifference or not knowing, and the cropped, cardigan-like knitted garment. Context sorts them, so shrugs around a table are gestures and shrugs on a rack are clothing. The same spelling is also the verb's third-person present (she shrugs her shoulders). A determiner or adjective in front, as in two shrugs or knitted shrugs, marks the noun.
shrugs is a form of shrug
shrug, noun: A raising of the shoulders that shows indifference or a casual admission of not knowing. Full entry
- Forms
- shrugshrugs plural
- Spelling
- shrug → shrugs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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