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/ɹʌnz/ noun A1
  1. Diarrhea/diarrhoea. (slang) · He missed several days of school because he had the runs. They think it was a Norovirus infection.
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It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 5 · B2
Now, on the other side of this narrow wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 55 · B2
It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
The Jungle Book, p. 1 · B2
But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.
The Jungle Book, p. 1 · B2

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