Usually means: Grandfathers, often used in South.
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  1. papaws: Merriam-Webster
  2. papaws: Collins English Dictionary
  3. papaws: Vocabulary.com
  4. papaws: Wordnik
  5. papaws: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. papaws: Wiktionary
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  1. papaws: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. papaws: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (papaw)

noun:  A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.
noun:  (less common) A father.
noun:  Alternative form of pawpaw, a grandfather, especially one's paternal grandfather. [Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:]
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