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exes

/ˈɛksəz/

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Canada/ˈɛksɪz/

exes is the plural of ex.

exes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ex.

exes is the plural of exe.

Noun (1)

exes

  1. (costermongers) The number six.
    • The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a rouf yenap'"...1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 17
  2. Odds of six to one.

Meaning of ex

Noun (1)

ex (plural exes)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
    • Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190

Noun (2)

ex (plural exes)

  1. (colloquial) A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband.
    • My friend has an ex who now lives abroad.

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Meaning of exe

Noun

exe (plural exes)

  1. (file format) A Windows executable file.
    • And a final note, you should encrypt the password stored in the exe. The encryption doesn't have to be the strongest, possibly just even an ascii value shift, but atleast^([sic]) some level of encryption that will keep someone using a hex editor from noticing an unusual string of characters in...1998 February 28, Michael Righi, “Can I keep PASSWORDS in the EXE file??”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet), retrieved 14 Apr 2022

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Noun (2)

exes pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) Expenses.
    • ‘I have offered to pay her ex's myself.’1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter III, in The Good Soldier […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC
    • Subs at the Star even had their own monthly exes (expenses), and we never even left the office. We got exes for our home phone calls and even our own supply of daily newspapers; in our view, most reporters made their exes up.2012, Jeff Connor, Field of Fire

Noun (3) capitalized: EXEs

EXEs

  1. (plural) plural of EXE

Noun (4) capitalized: Exes

Exes

  1. Alternative letter-case form of exes.

Forms of exes

alternative formexis

Origin of exes

Backslang for six

Abbreviation.

Questions about exes

What does exes mean?
Exes means the number six.
What is exes the plural of?
Exes is the plural of ex.
What part of speech is exes?
Exes is a noun.
How do you pronounce exes?
Exes is pronounced /ˈɛksəz/.

Words near exes in the dictionary

  1. exertions
  2. exertive
  3. exertment
  4. exertments
  5. exerts
  6. exes
  7. exesion
  8. exesions
  9. exessive
  10. exessive case
  11. exessive cases

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