cousins

Meanings

1. The American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective).

1. plural of cousin

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cousin

1. A surname from Middle English.

1. plural of Cousin

1. plural of Cousin

1. Alternative letter-case form of cousins (“the American intelligence services (from a British perspective) or the British intelligence services (from an American perspective)”).

Etymology

From cousin + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense forms of verbs). The plural noun noun 1 sense 1 (“American or British intelligence services”) was popularized in the works of the English author John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell; 1930–2020).