softs

Noun

soft (countable and uncountable, plural softs)

1. (archaic, countable) A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
   • It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 9, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first
2. A soft drink.
   • Artois' story with water and softs was embodied in the difficult relationship between Raymond Boon and Spa's main owner and CEO, Guy du Bois.2019, Kenneth Bertrams, Julien Del Marmol, Sander Geerts, Becoming the World's Biggest Brewer
3. (countable) A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
4. (colloquial, countable) A soft sound or part of a sound.
   • The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103
5. (countable, dated, nonstandard, rare) A piece of software.
   • Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly
6. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Banknotes.
   • At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes).1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

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