(~s)
1.
An ~ is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them.
She went off on some ~...
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2.
If you run an ~ for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.
She was forever running ~s for her housebound grandmother...
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