w

uppercase W · plural ws · plural w's

1. letterlowercaseThe twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.

1. watt
2. west
3. witness
4. work
5. abbreviationAbbreviation of win.

1. ball gameswide
2. white
3. successful, admirable, good

   W rizz.

1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of with.

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   This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend Xmas w them. ☺

   2013, Jessica Burkhart, Home for Christmas (Canterwood Crest; Super Special), New York, NY: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 44

2. with a wing (on the Enneagram)

   When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.

lowercase w · plural Ws · plural W's

1. letteruppercaseThe twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double U and written in the Latin script.

plural Ws

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of women (sign on toilet door).

   From the Kierkegaard Room he lopingly careened through a red-carpeted hallway that had previously vouchsafed him a comfort station but this morning seemed all business, no M or W in sight, just salons and boutiques and the Ingmar Bergman Cinema.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 332

2. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of west.
3. abbreviationAbbreviation of Wednesday.

   Synonyms: Wed, Wed.

4. abbreviationhobbiesAbbreviation of wins (statistic).
5. InternetabbreviationcountableAbbreviation of win.

   You say that like it's not an absolute W.

6. abbreviationball gamesAbbreviation of wicket.
7. abbreviationgovernmentAbbreviation of warrant.

comparative more W · superlative most W

1. slangExcellent, top-notch (abbreviation of winner). (Compare noun etymology 2, noun sense 4 and etymology 2, noun sense 5.)

   W goons

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   You, sir, are a W man.

   You got her number? W rizz!

   Antonyms: L

1. USinformalgovernmentGeorge W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

   Synonyms: Dubya, GWB