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mumps

mumps

 
pronunciation:
muhmps
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part of speech: noun
definition: (used with a sing. or pl. verb) an infectious disease, usu. affecting children, that causes inflammation of the salivary glands and sometimes of the reproductive organs.
Did you ever have the mumps when you were a child?
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