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  • noun nonstandard Plural form of louse.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of louse.

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Examples

  • His description of his sufferings from 'louses', when he slept in a Dutch farm, were pathetic, and ever since, he sleeps in his cart, with the little boy; and they bathe in the nearest river, and eat their lawful food and drink their water out of doors.

    Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845

  • Leaving ashes too small for the other Ghoul louses!

    SPECIAL CONTEST ACTIVITY 2009

  • Democrats "need to stop being gentlemen and start being rats and louses like the rest of them," she said.

    Unions Make Vote Push Melanie Trottman 2010

  • Maybe we should help those who are losing their homes, because they are not the incompetent louses that many around here seem to suggest.

    Say What?? -- Bob Shiller plunges into the deep end of the pool 2008

  • All I want to do is get the hell out of there before that stupid phone rings again with Kyle on the other end suffering from an attack of sentimentality and louses up my deal.

    Good-Bye To All That Margo Candela 2010

  • All I want to do is get the hell out of there before that stupid phone rings again with Kyle on the other end suffering from an attack of sentimentality and louses up my deal.

    Good-Bye To All That Margo Candela 2010

  • For you, the whole thing is one big rotten contradiction, and its adherents total louses.

    Solutions for Homosexual Christians James F. McGrath 2008

  • "I'll never get a job in this economy," "Republicans are louses," are some common ones.

    Eli Davidson: Quiz: Is It Time To Change Your Brain Filter? 2008

  • Out of the thugs, rats, and louses who make up the cast of characters, Spade is the one who sends the others to prison.

    Thin Man, Thick Plot Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • Wilder presents this wicked satire with a vicious wit that spares no joke at the expense of the philandering, manipulative, dishonest louses who populate the upper echelons of business management.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Ed Howard 2007

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