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circs en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/sɜːks/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/sɝks/ (General-American)
Meanings
(informal, plural, plural-only) Circumstances.
"They were trapped in circs that they didn't know anything about, that they could not have foreseen […] 2011 June 14, Jennifer Peltz, “Defense: Fatal NYC tower fire a 'bad circumstance'”, in BusinessWeek:
I'm covered as far as iPod and automobile go as I have a solid library of music I've ripped from CD and purchased. But music throughout the house is trickier. And, under normal circs, subscription is no answer. 2009 May 21, Christopher Breen, “Subscriptions, Sonos, and the Second Coming”, in Macworld:
Charlie Gilmour's father is an old Etonian poet; his stepfather a superannuated rock star worth around £78m whose most famous ditty insisted, somewhat amusingly under the circs, that "We don't need no education." 2010 December 16, Julie Burchill, “Spare us these pampered protesters who riot in defence of their privilege”, in The Independent:
All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves. 2011 May 1, Joanna Trollope, “Royal wedding: is this a fairytale? No, it is the real thing”, in The Telegraph: