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Hons

British  
/ ɑnz /

noun

  1. short for honours

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Hons recently decided to resume offering the procedure to women under the legal limit.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2021

Planned Parenthood, the national organization, does not dictate the operations of its affiliates, so she connected me with Hons.

From Slate Sep. 24, 2021

“The alarm bells ring,” said Carolin Hons, a 27-year-old advertising worker here in Germany’s capital.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2015

Shunning her aristocratic upbringing, she moved to the US, where she fought for civil rights and wrote bestselling books, including Hons & Rebels and The American Way of Death.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2014

They are considerably less flexible in their mental make-up than other animals that are com­monly trained in circuses and zoos—sea Hons and chimpanzees, for example.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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