quarters
nounUS /ˈkwɔɹtɚz/ · UK /ˈkwɔːtəz/
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Housing, barracks, or other habitation or living space.
- “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
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Broadly The place where someone or something lives.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ The local pet trade thrives on captured or orphaned baby macaques—often malnourished and kept in tight quarters.
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A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
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Quarterfinals.
- Derived terms
- beat to quarters, beat up someone's quarters, close quarters, cross-quarters, general quarters, headquarters, living quarters, outquarters, servants' quarters, sleeping quarters, three quarters, winter quarters