Usually means: Young male horse, under four.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. colt: Merriam-Webster
  2. Colt, colt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Colt, colt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colt, colt: Wordnik
  7. Colt, colt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Colt, colt: Wiktionary
  9. colt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colt, colt: Dictionary.com
  13. colt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. colt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COLT (software), Colt (cigarette), Colt (disambiguation), Colt (horse), Colt (libraries), Colt (surname), Colt, The Colt (Supernatural), The Colt (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Colt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. colt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. colt: Rhymezone
  19. Colt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. colt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COLT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Colt, Colt, Colt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. colt: FreeDictionary.org
  24. colt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Colt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. colt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. colt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Colt: Legal dictionary
  4. COLT: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. COLT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. colt: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. colt, colt, colt, colt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Colt (ice), The Colt, colt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Colt: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See colting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young male horse.
noun:  A young crane (bird).
noun:  (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
noun:  (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
noun:  (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
noun:  (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
verb:  (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
verb:  (obsolete, slang, transitive) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
noun:  A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

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