Usually means: Brothers of parents; male relatives.
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  1. uncles: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. uncles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. uncles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Uncle's, Uncles, Uncles, uncle's, uncles, uncles: Wordnik
  5. uncles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. uncles: Wiktionary
  7. uncles: Dictionary.com
  8. uncles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Uncles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. uncles: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. uncles: Idioms

(Note: See uncle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Uncle)

noun:  The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
noun:  The male cousin of one’s parent.
noun:  (endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
noun:  (euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
noun:  (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
noun:  (British, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
noun:  (especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and South Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
noun:  (Southern US, slang, archaic) An older African-American male.
noun:  (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter U.
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