vers

¹ American  

[vurs] / vɜrs /

or, especially British, verse

adjective

Slang.

1. (in the LGBTQ community) being or relating to a person who is willing to take either a penetrative or a receptive role in a particular sexual act, especially anal intercourse.

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vers. ² American  

abbreviation

Trigonometry.

1. versed sine.

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vers British  

abbreviation

1. versed sine

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Etymology

Origin of vers

First recorded in 2005–10; shortened from versatile ( def. )

Example Sentences

Matthieu Latrasse, un pilote de ligne actuellement premier du classement des 277 000 joueurs, demande à voler vers des destinations où se trouvent des oeuvres d’Invader.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

Juste comme ça, vers 18 heures, parce que c’est assez joli de se donner un rendez-vous ensemble chaque jour pour tromper l’ennui.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2020

The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017

The best poems in the book are actually a pastiche of one of James Laughlin’s vers d’occasion and a little take-off on “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s imagist classic:

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2015

Sur ce navire, o� la foule s'�lance, Tu vas vogeur vers les �tats-Unis; Dans ces climats, au sein de l'abondance, Vivent heureux vingt peuples r�unis.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by O'Shea, John Augustus