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grown-ups

grown-ups is the plural of grown-up.

Meaning of grown-up

Noun

grown-up (plural grown-ups)

  1. (childish, often) An adult.
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9

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Questions about grown-ups

What is grown-ups the plural of?
Grown-ups is the plural of grown-up.

Words near grown-ups in the dictionary

  1. grown-up
  2. grown-up point
  3. grown-up points
  4. grown-up-ness
  5. grown-upness
  6. grown-ups
  7. grownd
  8. grownds
  9. growne
  10. grownies
  11. grownish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grown-ups (page history and authors); grown-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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