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quats

quats is the plural of quat.

quats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quat.

Meaning of quat

Noun (1)

quat (plural quats)

  1. (obsolete) A pustule.
  2. (obsolete) An annoying, worthless person.
    • I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.1565, William Shakespeare, Othello

Noun (2)

quat (plural quats)

  1. A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
    • “Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove.2009 October 1, Hilary Howard, “New Ways to Moisturize for Less”, in The New York Times

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Noun capitalized: QUATs

QUATs

  1. (plural) plural of QUAT

Questions about quats

What is quats the plural of?
Quats is the plural of quat.
What part of speech is quats?
Quats is a noun.

Words near quats in the dictionary

  1. quatroon
  2. quatroons
  3. quatros
  4. quatrumvirate
  5. quatrumvirates
  6. quats
  7. quatsch
  8. Quatsino
  9. Quatt
  10. Quatt Malvern
  11. quatted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quats (page history and authors); QUATs (page history and authors); quat (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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