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playas

playas is the plural of playa.

Meaning of playa

Noun (1)

playa (plural playas)

  1. (US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
    • Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 66

Noun (2)

playa (plural playas)

  1. (error-unknown-tag, slang) A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
  2. (error-unknown-tag, slang) A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).
    • What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27

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Questions about playas

What is playas the plural of?
Playas is the plural of playa.

Words near playas in the dictionary

  1. playalike
  2. Playalinda
  3. Playalinda Beach
  4. playaround
  5. playarounds
  6. playas
  7. playathon
  8. playathons
  9. playback
  10. playback singer
  11. playback singers

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