apols

English

Etymology

From apologies by shortening.

Noun

apols pl (plural only)

1. (UK, informal) Apologies.
   • 2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, published 2008, →ISBN, page 105:

     Apols for TMI but that really is all that has happened.

   • 2011, James Bennett, Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 173–174:

     On the other, the self was also confirmed as authentic via a process of interaction, whereby Fry answered and apologised to his critic for the subsequent abuse he received on Twitter – 'Pls accept my apols ... I feel more sheepish than a sheep'.

   • 2013, Robert Hudson, The Dazzle, Jonathan Cape, published 2013, →ISBN, page 68:

     Apols if this letter is a disarray, but my head is like a drum made of cymbals.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:apols.

Anagrams

• POLSA, opals, OLAPs, salop, Opals, Alsop, Salop, SAPOL