gents'

American  

[jents] / dʒɛnts /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. Informal. the gents, a men's room.

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gents British  

/ dʒɛnts /

noun

1. informal (functioning as singular) a men's public lavatory

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Etymology

Origin of gents'

First recorded in 1920–25; gent ¹, -s ³

Example Sentences

Bill Bryson wrote about it in his 1995 book Notes From A Small Island saying: "There is no place in the world finer for a pee than the ornate gents' room of the Philharmonic."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2020

I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line gents’ establishment in Providence, Rhode Island.

From Salon • May 15, 2016

He cut the number of patterns from several thousand to only four, intended solely for the gents' jacket market.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2013

Although, admittedly, where I am standing is just by the gents' toilets in a succession of the hippest venues in western Europe.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2013

“Oh, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is just what there isn’t. He must have stepped into the gents’ room.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin