Huggins

[ huhg-inz ]

/ ˈhʌg ɪnz /

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noun

Charles Bren·ton

[bren-tn], /ˈbrɛn tn/, 1901–97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1966.

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Words nearby Huggins

hugely, hugeous, huggable, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, Huggins, huggy, Hugh, Hugh Capet, Hughes, Hughes, Langston

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How to use Huggins in a sentence

A Huggins-coached team missed two straight NCAA Tournaments for the first time since 1991, going 13-19 and then 17-16.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Huggins reached 14 straight NCAA Tournaments at Cincinnati, and even while his defenses ranked in the top 50 every year from the 1997-98 through 2004-05 seasons, they never ranked in the top 60 in forcing turnovers.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Huggins’s completion of not one but two systematic makeovers essentially puts him in a league of his own, as most of his contemporaries have spent decades adhering to one identity.
Bob Huggins And West Virginia Have Reinvented Themselves … Again|Jake Lourim|March 2, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
The complaint alleges that Huggins and Kooistra approved the overbilled work in exchange for kickbacks.
Lawsuit Reveals New Allegations Against PG&E Contractor Accused of Fraud|by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation|February 26, 2021|ProPublica

The pair were careful to keep Bay Area Concrete’s purchase orders low enough that Huggins would not have to seek approval from his supervisors.
Lawsuit Reveals New Allegations Against PG&E Contractor Accused of Fraud|by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation|February 26, 2021|ProPublica
To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins?
The Stacks: The Day Lou Gehrig Delivered Baseball’s Gettysburg Address|Ray Robinson|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Samuel Huggins, however, who is licensed to sell tobacco and snuff at Hawkhurst, was the friend in need.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893|Various
Added to this, they came and asked Mr. Huggins to grind corn for them on our little ox-power mill, which he refused to do.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
The women also undertook, under the instruction of Mrs. Huggins and Miss Fanny, to spin and knit and weave.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
Mr. Huggins also, about the same time, left the mission work, and made a home in the same neighborhood.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs
But Mrs. Huggins was timid, and preferred rather that her Dakota protector should decide which was the best way.
Mary and I|Stephen Return Riggs

British Dictionary definitions for Huggins

Huggins

/ (ˈhʌɡɪnz) /

noun

Sir William. 1824–1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum

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Medical definitions for Huggins

Huggins

[ hŭg′ĭnz ]

Charles Brenton 1901-1997

Canadian-born American surgeon. He shared a 1966 Nobel Prize for research in hormone treatment for cancer of the prostate.