Definitions for chests

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chests chest

Spelling: [chest]

IPA: /tʃɛst/

Chests is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in chests (cehsst).

Definitions for chests

noun

1. Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
2. a box, usually with a lid, for storage, safekeeping of valuables, etc.:
3. the place where the funds of a public institution or charitable organization are kept; treasury; coffer.
4. the funds themselves.
5. a box in which certain goods, as tea, are packed for transit.
6. the quantity contained in such a box:
7. chest of drawers.
8. a small cabinet, especially one hung on a wall, for storage, as of toiletries and medicines:

Idioms

1. get (something) off one's chest, Informal. to relieve oneself of (problems, troubling thoughts, etc.) by revealing them to someone.
2. play it close to the chest. vest (def 16).

Origin of chests

before 900; Middle English; Old English cest, cist Latin cista Greek kístē box

Examples for chests

Winkleman puffed out his chest and protruded his great beard.

They had evidently just landed, and two men were lifting out a chest from the boat.

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

I received many bruises on my collarbones, neck, chest, and shoulders.

He had ample girth of chest at the cinches, where lung capacity is best measured.

Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

"Kill me, Managa," I cried, smiting my chest as I stood facing him.

Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.

It lay untouched in the bottom of his chest, sailor-fashion.

At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.