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Etymology 1 n. (context colloquial English) toilets intended for use by men. Etymology 2

n. (plural of gent English)

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Gents (novel)

Gents is a novel by Warwick Collins first published in 1997. It is set in the unlikely environment of a "Gentlemen's" toilet, somewhere in London.

The story describes the lives of three West Indian immigrants who run a public urinal in London. Collins claimed it was stimulated in part by his memories of apartheid when he lived as a child in South Africa. The New York Times reviewer wrote: ''"Mr. Collins is able to express, deftly, several contrasting views of homosexuality. ..., resolves to make up his own mind about alternative life styles and does precisely that, with a mixture of love and logic."''

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When the Brits want something bad enough, they quit messing around with the tall, propah gents who were raised on tea and scones, and they send in the pintsized badasses.

Have any of you gents ever thought to delve into the secret lives of unfortunates such as Bubblehead Burnside?

Here are ten thousand women going by in clothes that would make a lily turn red and burn up with shame, and an equal number of proud gents with curlycue collars on their overcoats, and I want to do the sight justice.

I was telling myself that men with premonitions are the spiritual cousins of water dousers and the little gents who peer myopically at crystal balls.

There was a stout man in front of her and a motley collection of housewives, girls going home from the office and one or two idle city gents hedging her in.