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pst

pst is the alternative form of psst.

Meaning of psst

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) Used to call animals.
  2. (onomatopoeic) Used to request silence.
    Synonyms:
    shh
  3. (onomatopoeic) Used to imply that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person.
    • Psst, John, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got lots of candy stashed away.
    Synonyms:
    hist, ahem, ahoy, cooee, hey, heyo, hoi, oi, oi oi, yo
  4. (onomatopoeic) Imitating a spray.

See all 5 meanings of psst

Proper noun capitalized: PST

PST (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Pacific Standard Time.
    • “Oakland Airport Connector service is running limited service due to a power outage. Shuttles will depart every 18 minutes,” BART said in a 2:38 p.m. PST update.2023 February 19, Michelle Watson, “Bay Area Rapid Transit running limited service to Oakland Airport due to power outage”, in CNN
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Philippine Standard Time.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Palestinian Standard Time.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Proto-Sino-Tibetan.

Noun capitalized: PST

PST (plural PSTs)

  1. (Canada, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of provincial sales tax.

Forms of pst

pluralPSTs

Questions about pst

What is pst the alternative form of?
Pst is the alternative form of psst.
What part of speech is pst?
Pst can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near pst in the dictionary

  1. pssst
  2. psst
  3. pssted
  4. pssting
  5. pssts
  6. pst
  7. PSTN
  8. PSTNs
  9. Pstrokonski
  10. psu
  11. psuedo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pst (page history and authors); PST (page history and authors); psst (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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