Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation premenstrual syndrome

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  • verb to experience a premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress

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  • noun a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation

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Examples

  • For that reason, this chapter does not use the term PMS.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • You can accomplish this by following what I call the PMS Exception Diet.

    The 17 Day Diet Dr. Mike Moreno 2010

  • Forgive me Anne and PMS Chicago but I objected to this phrase in PMS's comment:

    Balkinization 2006

  • * PMS is a bitch and i'm sure i didn't invite her to stay:/I'm all kinds of miserable this morning.

    December 24th, 2005 mynxii 2005

  • PMS is tearing me up and I'm not sure if I need anything else doing more damage.

    June 12th, 2001 2001

  • Also, you need a man who knows he must NEVER say the acronym PMS to a woman who has it.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge 2009

  • I'm bringing a gaggle of amazing women to a networking and wine tasting event called PMS Wednesday.

    Godless and Bitchy but still having fun! barbylon 2007

  • I'm bringing a gaggle of amazing women to a networking and wine tasting event called PMS Wednesday.

    Godless and Bitchy but still having fun! barbylon 2007

  • My PMS is a monster as well that demands everything bad bad bad.

    Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: The perfect PMS dinner Kate 2007

  • The only clue we have to your reluctant embracing of the PMS is the fact that once a month you wake up and think that men are the most ignorant species on the planet and the only way to make us smarter is to yell, yell, yell at us at the tops of your dainty little lungs.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2006

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