apols

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Etymology

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From apologies by shortening.

Noun

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apols pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, informal) Apologies.
    • 2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, published 2008, →ISBN, page 105:
      Apols for TMI but that really is all that has happened.
    • 2011, James Bennett, Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 173–174:
      On the other, the self was also confirmed as authentic via a process of interaction, whereby Fry answered and apologised to his critic for the subsequent abuse he received on Twitter – 'Pls accept my apols ... I feel more sheepish than a sheep'.
    • 2013, Robert Hudson, The Dazzle, Jonathan Cape, published 2013, →ISBN, page 68:
      Apols if this letter is a disarray, but my head is like a drum made of cymbals.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:apols.

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