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level bests

level bests is the plural of level best.

Meaning of level best

Noun

level best (plural level bests)

  1. (idiomatic) The very best that one can do.
    • Then came a pause, each man aiming his level best, as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life itself depends upon the shot.1885 September, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Solomon’s Road”, in King Solomon’s Mines, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 102

Questions about level bests

What is level bests the plural of?
Level bests is the plural of level best.

Words near level bests in the dictionary

  1. leveful
  2. Leveille
  3. Leveilles
  4. level
  5. level best
  6. level bests
  7. level cap
  8. level caps
  9. level crossing
  10. level crossings
  11. level down

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