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hugs

/hʌɡz/

hugs is the plural of hug.

hugs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hug.

Meaning of hug

Noun

hug (plural hugs)

  1. A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, or the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace).
  2. A particular grip in wrestling.

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Phrases with hugs

Words that rhyme with hugs

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Questions about hugs

What is hugs the plural of?
Hugs is the plural of hug.
How do you pronounce hugs?
Hugs is pronounced /hʌɡz/.

Words near hugs in the dictionary

  1. Hugos
  2. Hugoton
  3. Hugpa
  4. Hugpa East
  5. Hugpa West
  6. hugs
  7. hugs and kisses
  8. hugs it out
  9. hugs of death
  10. hugs oneself
  11. hugsome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hugs (page history and authors); hug (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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