Definitions for vets

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vets vet

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IPA: /vɛt/

Vets is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in vets (estv).

Definitions for vets

noun

1. veterinarian.

noun, adjective

1. veteran.

verb (used with object)

1. to examine or treat in one's capacity as a veterinarian or as a doctor.
2. to appraise, verify, or check for accuracy, authenticity, validity, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. to work as a veterinarian.

Origin of vets

First recorded in 1860-65; short for veterinarian

Examples for vets

"You wouldn't say that if you'd seen some of the Johnnies who passed the vet with me," he replied.

Better take her to the stables, James, and send off for a vet.

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

Imagine being an Iraq vet who lost friends securing a place such as Fallujah only to see ISIS now seize it.

You see Chifney's as good as any vet, and I had to have somebody.

The vet says the horse has laminitis in his off fore foot, but it's all my eye.

This would be an ideal condition, but it has not, as vet been reached.

It was like witnessing the last two weeks of the life of a blind and toothless dog you knew the vet was just itching to destroy.

But they take their animals to the vet precisely because they care about their animals.

Instead, the time has been spent setting up a system to vet potential recruits.