curtains en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈkɜː(ɹ).tənz/ (UK)
Meanings
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(figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show, plural, plural-only) An end or death.
It's curtains for you!
He called curtains on his double decade cricket career on Tuesday.
"What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."
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(form-of, plural) plural of curtain
form of curtain
- (colloquial, plural, plural-only) A ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni effect.
- (US, plural, plural-only, slang, uncommon) The foreskin.
- (US, plural, plural-only, slang, uncommon) The labia.
- (plural, plural-only) Synonym of curtain (“a hairstyle”)
Relateds
Synonyms
legs · wine tears · church windows · curtain · tears of wine
Translations (22)
ja 一巻の終わり (end, death (colloquial)) · ru пизде́ц (end, death (colloquial)) · it avercelo in culo (end, death (colloquial)) · hu annyi (end, death (colloquial)) · ru кирды́к (end, death (colloquial)) · cmn 糟糕 (end, death (colloquial)) · pl szlus (end, death (colloquial)) · it essere fottuto (end, death (colloquial)) · ru каю́к (end, death (colloquial)) · ru кры́шка (end, death (colloquial)) · ru кранты́ (end, death (colloquial)) · it essere cazzi (end, death (colloquial)) · pl finito (end, death (colloquial)) · hu snitt (end, death (colloquial)) · hu vége (end, death (colloquial)) · cmn 完蛋 (end, death (colloquial)) · hu befellegzik (end, death (colloquial)) · ru хана́ (end, death (colloquial)) · hu kampec (end, death (colloquial)) · it cazzi suoi/loro (end, death (colloquial)) · ru капу́т (end, death (colloquial)) · fr fichu (end, death (colloquial))