Meanings
- UKinformalpluralplural onlyApologies.
Apols for TMI but that really is all that has happened.
2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1052 more examples
On the other, the self was also confirmed as authentic via a process of interaction, whereby Fry answered and apologised to his critic for the subsequent abuse he received on Twitter – 'Pls accept my apols ... I feel more sheepish than a sheep'.
2011, James Bennett, Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 173–174Apols if this letter is a disarray, but my head is like a drum made of cymbals.
2013, Robert Hudson, The Dazzle, Jonathan Cape, published 2013, →ISBN, page 68
Origin
From apologies by shortening.
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apols. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apols
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