The plural form of apocope; multiple instances of words that have been shortened by dropping their final sounds or letters.
From the Greek apocope with the standard English plural suffix -s, used when referring to several examples of this linguistic phenomenon.
English is full of apocopes that we don't even notice—'phone' (telephone), 'copter' (helicopter), 'gym' (gymnasium)—they're invisible shortcuts in speech!
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