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grins-and-giggles

grins-and-giggles is the alternative form of grins and giggles.

Meaning of grins and giggles

Noun

grins and giggles pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of kicks and giggles.
    • When he had dismissed those odious women with their grins and giggles, he stepped into the seat in front, and, leaning over it, held out his hand with a manner from which all the warmth and spontaneity had departed, saying, "Ah, good evening, Mrs. Brand. How is my boy to-day?"1913, Hersilia A. Mitchell Keays, Mrs. Brand, A Novel, page 85

Questions about grins-and-giggles

What is grins-and-giggles the alternative form of?
Grins-and-giggles is the alternative form of grins and giggles.

Words near grins-and-giggles in the dictionary

  1. grins
  2. grins and bears it
  3. grins and giggles
  4. grins from ear to ear
  5. grins like a mule eating briars
  6. grins-and-giggles
  7. Grinsell
  8. Grinshill
  9. grinsome
  10. Grinspan syndrome
  11. Grinspan's syndrome

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