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• (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
  "Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours."
• (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
• (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
  "Can you give me two tens for this twenty?"
• (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
  "I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself. And on close [censored] And we kept checking it out and he was looking directly at the teacher. Well, a couple minutes passed by [censored] he proceeds to [censored] that's when the teacher noticed and, you know, took the kids away very hurriedly. But I looked at my dad and said, you know, they're so much like us."

name

• (sports) Abbreviation of Tennessee.

noun

• (medicine) Initialism of toxic epidermal necrolysis.