Usually means: Mysterious, grinning cat from Wonderland.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word cheshire cat:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cheshire cat: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cheshire cat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cheshire cat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Cheshire cat: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cheshire cat: Wordnik
  6. Cheshire cat: Wiktionary
  7. Cheshire cat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Cheshire cat: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cheshire cat: Dictionary.com
  10. Cheshire Cat (Ronnie Foster album), Cheshire Cat (comics), Cheshire Cat (disambiguation), Cheshire Cat, Cheshire cat, The Cheshire Cat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cheshire cat: Rhymezone
  12. cheshire cat: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cheshire cat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Cheshire cat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. cheshire cat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  16. Cheshire cat: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cheshire Cat: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cheshire Cat (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. cheshire cat, the Cheshire Cat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cheshire_cats as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cheshire cat)

noun:  A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
noun:  (programming, attributive) A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality.

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