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  • noun Plural form of rad.

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Examples

  • The fab thing about rads is that you have 2 choices: all the way on, or all the way off.

    Hot Hot Heat Jes Battis 2007

  • IG - depending on the material, how hot your rads are and how long you leave it on there it can ignite.

    Final Fantasy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Then go to the park, and see what's a goin 'on there; whether those pretty critturs, the rads are a holdin' a prime minister 'parsonally responsible,' by shootin 'at him; or whether there is a levee, or the Queen is ridin' out, or what not; take a look at the world, make a visit or two to kill time, when all at once it's dark.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • Then go to the park, and see what's a goin 'on there; whether those pretty critturs, the rads are a holdin' a prime minister 'parsonally responsible,' by shootin 'at him; or whether there is a levee, or the Queen is ridin' out, or what not; take a look at the world, make a visit or two to kill time, when all at once it's dark.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • Followed by an argument about how many "rads" we had in the office.

    Parliamentary Heating - Cover Up Kerron Cross 2007

  • Tooth-achingly good, Aunt Bill's candy was just the thing for a pre-adolescent sweet tooth-until, of course, I tasted chocolate "rads," the dark, crackly, bittersweet chocolate-on-chocolate cookies that would usher me into puberty.

    Orangette 2010

  • Adding to the confusion, some scientists, especially in the U.S., use the older terms curies, rads and rems to describe radiation.

    Radiation Math: How Do We Count the Rays? Carl Bialik 2011

  • He was merely playing to his audience, talking privately -- or so he thought -- to a cackle of rads, well-heeled San Francisco Democrats who are as disdainful of ordinary Americans as he is.

    On the Offensive James Taranto 2010

  • Back then, doctors tended to overshoot doses and the methotrexate and all the rads turned mom into a bitch.

    Gemma's Story Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

  • He patronized rads like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin while moving his enterprise to the center, creating a huge fan base without the aid of Twitter or Facebook that helped open the market space for MTV and later, digital music and movies.

    Eric Ehrmann: Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up 2010

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