ビールス

ビールス · biirusu · JLPT N1 · noun

virus

ビールス — virus

🦠 Sounds like beer + loose: a virus is a bug that gets loose in your body

Borrowed from English virus, written in katakana. ビール (beer) plus ス gives a sound hook: beer-loose, the same sound as the word for a bug that spreads freely through a body.

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