noun

runs

Translation

runs (points in sport), runs (in stockings), the runs (diarrhea)

The team needs two more runs to win.

I got some runs in my new tights.

I got some runs in my new stockings.

I think I have the runs.

((as a noun)) points in a sport like baseball The team needs two more runs to win.

((as a noun)) a long tear in stockings I got some runs in my new stockings.

((the runs)) an illness causing diarrhea I think I have the runs.

Synonyms: points, scores (sport); ladder, snag (stockings)

The plural form of the noun 'run', which comes from the verb 'to run'.

Think of a player making multiple 'runs' across a field, or a tear 'running' down stockings, creating lines (runs).