AIDS

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Acronym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

   Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).

2. 2
   adj

   Extremely annoying or frustrating.

   Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS.

3. 3
   noun

   Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).

   If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter.

4. 4
   noun

   a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles

5. 5
   noun

   plural of aid

6. 6
   verb

   third-person singular simple present indicative of aid