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  • noun Plural form of figger.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figger.

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Examples

  • Your figgers is 'way off, but your point is well taken.

    JUST MEAT 2010

  • Your figgers is 'way off, but your point is well taken.

    Just Meat 1911

  • Your figgers is 'way off, but your point is well taken.

    "Just Meat" 1907

  • "Your figgers was a few hundred thousand out of the way, maybe, but barrin 'that you was perfectly right."

    The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • He also said "figgers," and "I reckon," and "strait" for street, as though he saw a world better than the one she knew.

    Beard 2010

  • Artemus Ward was a traveling showman who went about the country exhibiting a collection of wax "figgers" and whose experiences and reflections were reported in grammar and spelling of a most ingeniously eccentric kind.

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • Tama Murden: I'd guess, knowing you, your "figgers" are spot-on.

    Hoboken 411 2009

  • Mark, the "figgers," as you put it, are readily available from the CBO.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • Tama Murden: I'd guess, knowing you, your "figgers" are spot-on.

    Hoboken 411 2009

  • a traveling showman who went about the country exhibiting a collection of wax "figgers" and whose experiences and reflections were reported in grammar and spelling of a most ingeniously eccentric kind.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

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