Usually means: Large snake, constricts to kill.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word boa:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. boa: Merriam-Webster
  2. boa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boa: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boa, boa: Wordnik
  7. boa: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boa: Wiktionary
  9. boa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boa: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BOA: Dictionary.com
  13. boa: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boa: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BOA (band), BOA, BoA (album), BoA, Boa (Croatian band), Boa (band), Boa (disambiguation), Boa (genus), Boa (web server), Boa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boa: Rhymezone
  19. Boa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boa: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Boa: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. boa: FreeDictionary.org
  23. boa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. boa: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. boa: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOA: Accounting Glossary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOA, boa: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BoA (musical group), Boa (singer), boa: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BOA, BoA (musical group), Boa (singer): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOA: Acronym Finder
  2. BOA: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. B.O.A, B.O.A, Boa: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOA: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
noun:  A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
noun:  A member of a Bwa-speaking ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
noun:  (acronym, initialism, cosmology) Abbreviation of basin of attraction; the gravitational center of a supercluster of galaxies; a Great Attractor. [(mathematics, physics) Informally, a set of points from which a dynamical system spontaneously moves to a particular attractor.]

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