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  • noun Plural form of lady.
  • noun UK A toilet for women or girls.

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Examples

  • He uses the term ladies loosely, Alyssa commented, and I smirked.

    Giving Up the V Serena Robar 2009

  • He uses the term ladies loosely, Alyssa commented, and I smirked.

    Giving Up the V Serena Robar 2009

  • He uses the term ladies loosely, Alyssa commented, and I smirked.

    Giving Up the V Serena Robar 2009

  • He uses the term ladies loosely, Alyssa commented, and I smirked.

    Giving Up the V Serena Robar 2009

  • Many sporting events have moved away from the term ladies in favor of women, with Wimbledon being a notable exception.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2008

  • What was now to his cynical mind screamingly funny about the American -- his sensitive delicate feelings, his high standard of morals with regard to what he called the ladies, and illusions that one would rarely find in London in

    The Limit Ada Leverson 1897

  • I suppose they are what you call ladies and gentlemen? '

    Demos George Gissing 1880

  • An ad saying “Drink Budweiser” with scantily clad ladies is likely also be just as offensive to some Muslims (and Mormons and Southern Baptists).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Islam Bus Ads in Miami 2010

  • "Don't forget, it's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters on the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view," Kasper said in a 2005 NPR interview repeated in a 2006 ABC report on the eve of the Torino Games.

    Women's jumpers still hoping for flight in 2010 Games 2009

  • The one regret I hear so often from old ladies is that they wish they spent less time cleaning and more time with their kids.

    Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009

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  • "First Ladies rule the State and state the rule: ladies first."

    July 8, 2007

  • An easy way to sound like a creep is to add the word “ladies” to the end of things you say. It can be harmless too, but it just makes you a creep. “Yeah after college I spent two years in the peace corps, ladies?” The more harmless it is, the more of a creep you become. “I broke my arm. I need help, ladies?” FYDemetriMartin

    October 1, 2012

  • I remember an acquaintance who used the word "sisters" in the same context. Ick. "Join me at ye olde water cooler for a sip, sisters?"

    October 2, 2012