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
The conservative, on the other hand, clings stubbornly to the old conventions, and will have nothing to do with vers libre or anything that savours of it.
From Acanthus and Wild Grape by Frank Oliver Call
In vers. 7-9 we have the future glory, which makes it easy for the Servant of God to bear the sufferings of the Present.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
It falls into three divisions--First, the Lord speaks of His servant, vers. 1-4; then He speaks to His servant, ver. 5-7; finally.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
In the same manner, the prophecy against Sebna in chap. xxii. 16-25, stands in an internal connection with vers. 1-15; in that which befel him, the destinies of the people were to be typified.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
The third subdivision of the principal portion, vers. 8-10, describes the reward of the Servant of God, by expanding the words: "Kings shall shut their mouths on account of Him," in chap. lii.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
It is he who shall build an house for the Lord who will establish for ever the throne of his kingdom, vers. 13-16.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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