Circs vs Circus - What's the difference?
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(plurale tantum, informal) Circumstances.
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A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
(historical) In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
(military, World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
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(obsolete) Circuit; space; enclosure.
As a noun circs
is .As a verb circs
is (circ).As a proper noun circus is
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(head)Subscriptions, Sonos, and the Second Coming", Macworld , 21 May 2009:
- I'm covered as far as iPod and automobile go as I have a solid library of music I've ripped from CD and purchased. But music throughout the house is trickier. And, under normal circs , subscription is no answer.
Spare us these pampered protesters who riot in defence of their privilege", The Independent , 16 December 2010:
- Charlie Gilmour's father is an old Etonian poet; his stepfather a superannuated rock star worth around £78m whose most famous ditty insisted, somewhat amusingly under the circs , that "We don't need no education."
Royal wedding: is this a fairytale? No, it is the real thing", The Telegraph , 1 May 2011:
- All this royal pomp and circs and magnificence and significance and sacred music and you are, quite rightly, your unaffected modern English selves.
Defense: Fatal NYC tower fire a 'bad circumstance'", BusinessWeek , 14 June 2011:
- "They were trapped in circs that they didn't know anything about, that they could not have foreseen
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(circus)Noun
(es)- The circus will be in town next week.
- Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
RAF Web - Air of Authority
- ... the squadron (No. 452) moved to Kenley in July 1941 and took part in the usual round of Circus , Rhubarb and Ramrod missions.
- The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. — Byron.