Usually means: Sensations of cold with shivering.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word chills:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. chills, the chills: Merriam-Webster
  2. chills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chills: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chills, chills: Wordnik
  5. chills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chills: Wiktionary
  7. chills: Dictionary.com
  8. chills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Chills (Down with Webster song), Chills (EP), Chills (James Barker Band song), Chills (TV series), Chills (band), Chills, The Chills: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. chills: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chills: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chills: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. chills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Chills: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Chills: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. chills: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Chills: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chills: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chills, the chills: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chills)

▸ noun:  (biology) A biological response to being tickled; being cold; or experiencing fear, euphoria or sexual arousal in which the person forms goose bumps.
▸ noun:  (medicine) A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.

Similar:
chilly, gelidity, iciness, cool, thrill, frisson, cool down, shivering, shudder, tingle, more...

Opposite:
fever, warmth, heat

Types:
goose bumps, shivers, gooseflesh, more...

Phrases:
chills and fever, chills blood, chills out, The Chills, chills down, more...

Adjectives:
cold, severe, sudden, slight, violent, frequent, congestive, irregular, little, recurrent, occasional



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Similar:
chilly, gelidity, iciness, cool, thrill, frisson, cool down, shivering, shudder, tingle, more...

Opposite:
fever, warmth, heat

Types:
goose bumps, shivers, gooseflesh, more...

Phrases:
chills and fever, chills blood, chills out, The Chills, chills down, chills down my spine, send chills, give chills, chills caused by emotions, more...

Adjectives:
cold, severe, sudden, slight, violent, frequent, congestive, irregular, little, recurrent, occasional



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