vers
adjective
(in the LGBTQ community) being or relating to a person who is willing to take either a penetrative or a receptive role in a particular sexual act, especially anal intercourse.
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vers
1 American
[vurs]
/ vɜrs /
or, especially British,
verse
adjective
Slang.
vers.
2
American
abbreviation
Trigonometry.
vers
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of vers
First recorded in 2005–10; shortened from versatile ( def. )
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The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
The best poems in the book are actually a pastiche of one of James Laughlin’s vers d’occasion and a little take-off on “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s imagist classic:
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
The elder poet was presented with a small stone casket full of poems written by the younger men, poems that struck him as “word problems”: incomprehensibly Modern, most of them in vers libre.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
The Arditti's own contribution was Michael Pelzel's … vers le vent …, a three-movement work in a slightly more playful vein, following sighing, breathing noises in the slow movement with a scurrying, gusty finale.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2013
His attitude with regard to the vers libre was by no means due to this influence.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
The thanksgivings for the promise are followed in vers. 25-29 by a prayer for its fulfilment, intermingled with expressions of hope.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
First, in vers. 1-3, the symbolical action is reported.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
He became tributary to the Assyrian king Pul, vers. 19-21.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
There then follows, from vers. 5-8, an announcement of the misery which is to be inflicted by Asshur, of whom Ahaz and the unbelieving portion of the people expected nothing but deliverance.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
To the same result we are led also by the description of the rich sacrificial worship in vers. 15-19.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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