Definition of "refs" []

• Plural form of ref. (noun)
• A scheduled meal break during a shift, short for refreshments. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ref. (verb)

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• "My heckling of the refs is actually helping them develop as people."
• "Bill Simmons wrote an article last year about how Stern puts certain refs in at certain games because he knows what calls they will make in those situations, just like the ref they put in in the Finals last year that helped DWade get to the line an obscene amount of times when people were whiffing at him."
• "If we brought in refs that called a fair game the Suns would blow the Spurs out in a four game sweep, maybe the Spurs win that first one at home which makes it a 5-game series."