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- pronunciation:
- muhmps
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
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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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