Citations:circ

Noun: "(informal) circumcision"

 * 1990 — Hanoch Teller, A Midrash and a Masseh, Feldheim Publishers (1990), ISBN 1881939081, page 290:
 * As an obstetrics resident at Ohio State, he had had the opportunity to perform hundreds of circumcisions. "Do the circ, jerk," the third-year residents would command the lowly interns, but years after his internship, Jeff was still glad to be the "jerk."
 * 1999 — Brian Morris, In Favour of Circumcision, University of New South Wales Press (1999), ISBN 086840537X, page 67:
 * l wrote to the editor of Circumcision telling him about my own adult circ.
 * 2001 — Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus (2001), ISBN 1842325183, page 65:
 * During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'
 * 2005 — Kavey Nambisan, Hills of Angheri, Penguin (2005), ISBN 9780143032717, page 154:
 * Circumcision was the most common surgery and there was a circ list twice a week.
 * 2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), ISBN 9780595459858, unnumbered page:
 * If you want to rail against circ because it's done on unconsenting babies, go to. [sic]
 * 2011 — Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood, Grand Central Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780446574419, unnumbered pages:
 * Aside from the actual hassle of booking the OR time and putting the child under general anesthesia, the circumcision itself is a minuscule procedure for the surgeons, barely worth mentioning except in diminutives. "Just a circ," they say. Or is it cirque?
 * The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
 * 2011 — Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781603582971, page 50:
 * Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.
 * Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs.

Verb: "(informal) to circumcise"

 * 2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), ISBN 9780595459858, unnumbered page:
 * If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
 * 2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), ISBN 9780595459858, unnumbered page:
 * If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
 * 2007 — Nick J. Myers III, Sex & Sensuality: Essays on Fun Stuff, iUniverse (2007), ISBN 9780595459858, unnumbered page:
 * If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
 * If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.

Noun: "(informal, of a book, periodical, etc.) circulation"

 * 2010 — Christian Zabriskie, "Graphics Let Teens OWN the Library", in Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging (ed. Robert G. Weiner), McFarland & Company (2010), ISBN 9780786443024, page 171:
 * Surprisingly, the random graphics group cost still less, $11.40 on average, circulated the most with an average of 26 circs at time of record, and had far and away the lowest cost to circ ratio of any of the sets at 0.81 (less than a fourth of the base-line group).

Verb: "(informal, of a book, periodical, etc.) circulate"

 * 2010 — Rebecca Miller, "In Minnesota, a Weekend Library on a Frozen Lake", Library Journal, 2 May 2010:
 * How many books have circed in how many days “open”?
 * 2011 — Sarah Ludwig, Starting from Scratch: Building a Teen Library Program, Libraries Unlimited (2010), ISBN 9781598846072, page 152:
 * If your series books aren't circing, for example, is it because the most recent books haven't been purchased?