specs
/spɛks
/plural noun
1 informal A pair of spectacles.Put on a pair of specs that put everything out of focus....
- Then a tall middle-aged man with short blonde hair and ice blue eyes hidden behind a pair of specs came in.
- Well, Kim had a pair of very groovy blue specs on.
2 US term for spec2.
Origin
Early 19th century: abbreviation.
Rhymes
- post-selection
- post ship
- post shop
- post-sitter
- post-sixteen
- post-Soviet
- postsphenoid
- postsphenoidal
- post-stage
- post-Stalin
- post-Stalinist
- post station
- poststernal
- post-structural
- post-structuralism
- post-structuralist
- postsylvian
- postsynapsis
- postsynaptic
- postsynaptically
- post-sync
- post-synch.
- post-synch
- post-synchronization
- post-synchronize