curtains

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ).tənz/

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Noun

curtains

1. plural of curtain

Noun

curtains pl (plural only)

1. (figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end or death.

   It's curtains for you!

   "What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."

2. (colloquial, oenology) A ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni effect.

Synonyms

• (alcohol effect): church windows, legs, tears of wine, wine tears

Translations

end, death (colloquial)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完蛋 (zh) (wándàn), 糟糕 (zh) (zāogāo)

• French: fichu (fr)
• Hungarian: snitt (hu), kampec (hu), annyi (hu), vége (hu), befellegzik (hu)
• Japanese: 一巻の終わり (いっかんのおわり, ikkan no owari)
• Russian: кранты́ (ru) m pl (krantý), хана́ (ru) f (xaná), каю́к (ru) m (kajúk), кирды́к (ru) m (kirdýk), капу́т (ru) m (kapút), кры́шка (ru) f (krýška), пизде́ц (ru) m (pizdéc) (vulgar)

Verb

curtains

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of curtain

Anagrams

• saturnic, turacins, unracist