Alls is a nonstandard form of all, used in some American dialects: Alls I know is what I read in the papers.
It appears almost exclusively in the phrase alls I know or alls you need.
The construction is informal and regional, not accepted in standard English.
1. totality — everything, The complete set; entirety (The whole of something); wholeness (Complete, undivided state); completeness (State of being whole); sum · aggregate · fullness · comprehensive · universal · total · whole · complete · entire · collective
2. everyone — everybody, All persons collectively; the whole lot; every last one; the lot
Opposites
completeness/totalityalls ≠ partials Incomplete sets or components; parts · portions · fragments · fractions · pieces
QUANTITY/TOTALITYalls ≠ nothing Not any thing; none · naught · zero · nil · nada
Phrases
all right (Satisfactory or unharmed); all the time (Without interruption or pause); after all (Despite preceding circumstances); at all (To any degree); all day (For entire daylight hours); all night (Entire evening duration)
Family
all, ally, overall, allegory, alloy
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