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  • noun Plural form of grin.

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Examples

  • Thursday 1/14/10 9:23am - ... wherein Spanish grins insipidly but doesn't say a word.

    Peter Rogers's Blog 2010

  • Online, a “friend” could be just about anyone from a friend-of-a-friend, to someone you ran into once at a conference, to someone from high school you haven’t actually spoken to in 10 years but just for grins is on your Facebook list.

    inkblurt · Flourishing, Friending & the Evolution of “Social” 2007

  • God, I hope so. aindreas yeah. the lip sync - that really did surprise me. and when he grins, that is really off in a big way. still good point tho - cake still in oven, months to go yet. hopefully.

    Brendon’s Avatar Day Experience - The Footage, Guy Ritchie and Joel Silver Reactions | /Film 2009

  • He was composing a departed's face into a last smile, but he went too fur with it, and give the departed one of them awful mean, devilish kind of grins, like he had died with a bad temper on.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • Sam, he digs a stone out'n the road with the toe of his shoe, and kind of grins to himself, still looking sheepish.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • After we had taken several "grins," one of them informed him that his transportation entitled him to whisky free and a seat at the ladies 'table.

    The Camp Jester, or, Amusement for the Mess. No Author 1864

  • And "grins" (depicting communist leaders in obscene or comical positions) were a way for criminal to put two fingers up at the authorities.

    The Guardian World News Will Hodgkinson 2010

  • And "grins" (depicting communist leaders in obscene or comical positions) were a way for criminal to put two fingers up at the authorities.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • And she kind of grins and meets your eyes as if to say,. .all the knowledge in the universe, and Zen perfection is between my taunt tan thighs ', "Pretty fresh.

    WHO'S RICH? 2009

  • And she kind of grins and meets your eyes as if to say,. .all the knowledge in the universe, and Zen perfection is between my taunt tan thighs ', "Pretty fresh.

    WHO'S RICH? 2009

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