Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hilars

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hi-lars
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Clipping of hilarious.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"I start to say something, even though I have no idea what to say, but then Alison Stipe walks up and goes, "You guys, that stuff this weekend was hilars. Stupid Emma.""
"Do you really think your mom will eventually find your disgusting, crass comments hilarious? Why don't you ask her first? I'm venturing to guess that even if she thought you were "hilars," she'd probably tell you to put a sock in it and smarten up."
"There's a way that young people talk these days, and it's totes hilars. You see it on Twitter a lot, people exclaiming about their totes delish spags or their totes redic boyfs."

Etymology

Clipping of hilarious + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more hilars (comparative) most hilars (superlative)

Synonyms

hilar

Questions

What does hilars mean?: Clipping of hilarious.
Where does hilars come from?: Clipping of hilarious + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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