cousins

alternative Cousins

1. pluralplural onlyslangespionageThe American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).

   [T]he grounded fieldmen, the trainers and the case officers who made their own murmured caucus always – they saw the question solely in operational terms. […] They saw the shotgun marriage with the Cousins as just another skilful bit of tradecraft in a long and delicate poker game.

   1977, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], chapter I, in The Honourable Schoolboy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 16

1. pluralplural of cousin

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of cousin

plural Cousinses · alternative Couzen · alternative Couzens · alternative Cozen · alternative Cozens · alternative Cozin · alternative Cozins · alternative Cossin · alternative Cossins · alternative Cosin · alternative Cosins · alternative Cusin · alternative Cusins · alternative Cussin · alternative Cussins · alternative Cousin

1. A surname from Middle English.

1. pluralplural of Cousin

1. pluralplural of Cousin

1. Alternative letter-case form of cousins (“the American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective)”).