Meanings
- pluralplural of circ
- informalpluralplural onlyCircumstances.
"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 BusinessWeek3 more examples
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 MacworldCharlie 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 IndependentAll 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
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of circ
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circs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circs
“circs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circs. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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