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hos

hos is the plural of ho.

Meaning of ho

Noun (1)

ho

  1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
    • O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature I3...

Noun (2)

ho (plural hos or hoes or (humorous, nonstandard) heaux)

  1. (US, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
    • Bros before hoes!
  2. (US, offensive, slang, vulgar) A woman in general; a bitch.

Noun (3)

ho (plural hos)

  1. (US, obsolete, slang, vulgar) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
    • Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v

See all 12 meanings of ho

Noun capitalized: HOS

HOS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of hall of shame.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of head of state.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of hours of service.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Holt-Oram syndrome.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of higher-order statistics.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Health Online Service.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Health Organization Studies.

Proper noun capitalized: HOS

HOS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.

Phrases with hos

Questions about hos

What is hos the plural of?
Hos is the plural of ho.
What part of speech is hos?
Hos can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near hos in the dictionary

  1. Horwoods
  2. hory
  3. Horyniec
  4. Horyniec-Zdrój
  5. Horæ
  6. hos
  7. Hos.
  8. Hosack
  9. Hosacks
  10. Hosaka
  11. Hosaka-Cohen transformation

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