Meaning & use
Babes
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Informal plural of "babe," used to refer to attractive people or, more literally, to infants.
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The magazine ranked its list of Hollywood's most photographed babes.
The nursery was full of babes wrapped snugly in blankets.
A note on using this word
The slang sense ("attractive person") became widespread in 20th-century American English, distinct from the older literal meaning of "infant."
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