The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BITCHES
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What does BITCHES mean?
BITCHES noun- (dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A woman.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A submissive person who does what others want; a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
- (used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
- A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- Place; situation
- To behave or act as a bitch.
- To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
- To spoil, to ruin.