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stirs

stirs is the plural of stir.

stirs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stir.

Meaning of stir

Noun (1)

stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)

  1. The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
    • Can you give the soup a little stir?
  2. agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
    • Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
  3. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
    • Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
  4. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Noun (2)

stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)

  1. (slang) Jail; prison.
    • He's going to be spending maybe ten years in stir.

See all 16 meanings of stir

Noun capitalized: STIRs

STIRs

  1. (plural) plural of STIR

Phrases with stirs

Questions about stirs

What is stirs the plural of?
Stirs is the plural of stir.
What part of speech is stirs?
Stirs is a noun.

Words near stirs in the dictionary

  1. stirrup vases
  2. stirruped
  3. stirrupless
  4. stirruplike
  5. stirrups
  6. stirs
  7. stirs one's stumps
  8. stirs shit
  9. stirs someone's blood
  10. stirs the embers
  11. stirs the pot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stirs (page history and authors); STIRs (page history and authors); stir (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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