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names names

names names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of name names.

Meaning of name names

Verb

name names (third-person singular simple present names names, present participle naming names, simple past and past participle named names)

  1. (idiomatic) To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.
    • "Pr'ythee, peace, man," said Avenel; "what need of naming names, so we understand each other? [...]"1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John...

Questions about names names

What is names names the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Names names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of name names.

Words near names names in the dictionary

  1. Namerican
  2. namers
  3. names
  4. names after
  5. names and shames
  6. names names
  7. names one's poison
  8. names the day
  9. names to conjure with
  10. namesake
  11. namesaked

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