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kerbs

kerbs is the plural of kerb.

Meaning of kerb

Verb

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
  2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating their bowels.
    • I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed[.]1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35

Proper noun capitalized: Kerbs

Kerbs (plural Kerbses)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of kerbs

pluralKerbses

Origin of kerbs

Borrowed from German Kerbs.

Phrases with kerbs

Questions about kerbs

What does kerbs mean?
Kerbs means a surname from German.
What is kerbs the plural of?
Kerbs is the plural of kerb.
What part of speech is kerbs?
Kerbs is a proper noun.

Words near kerbs in the dictionary

  1. kerbless
  2. kerblike
  3. kerblooey
  4. kerboom
  5. kerbooms
  6. kerbs
  7. Kerbses
  8. kerbside
  9. kerbsides
  10. kerbstone
  11. kerbstoned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kerbs (page history and authors); Kerbs (page history and authors); kerb (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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