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thumbs-ups

thumbs-ups is the plural of thumbs-up.

thumbs-ups is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thumbs-up.

Meaning of thumbs-up

Verb

thumbs-up (third-person singular simple present thumbs-ups, present participle thumbs-upping, simple past and past participle thumbs-upped)

  1. (transitive) To approve with a thumbs-up sign.
    • He stood outside the dressing room and thumbs-upped or thumbs-downed each choice.2015, Anne Wagener, Borrow-A-Bridesmaid
    Antonyms:
    thumbs-down

Questions about thumbs-ups

What is thumbs-ups the plural of?
Thumbs-ups is the plural of thumbs-up.

Words near thumbs-ups in the dictionary

  1. thumbs-downing
  2. thumbs-downs
  3. thumbs-up
  4. thumbs-upped
  5. thumbs-upping
  6. thumbs-ups
  7. thumbsbreadth
  8. thumbsbreadths
  9. thumbscrew
  10. thumbscrews
  11. thumbshot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbs-ups (page history and authors); thumbs-up (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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