Usually means: Sword hanging by a thread.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Damocles: Merriam-Webster
  2. Damocles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Damocles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Damocles: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Damocles: Vocabulary.com
  6. Damocles: Wordnik
  7. Damocles, damocles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Damocles: Wiktionary
  9. Damocles: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Damocles: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Damocles: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. damocles: Dictionary.com
  13. Damocles: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Damocles (disambiguation), Damocles (targeting pod), Damocles (video game), Damocles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Damocles: Rhymezone
  16. damocles: FreeDictionary.org
  17. damocles: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Damocles: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Damocles: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Damocles: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DAMOCLES: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. Damocles: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damocles: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See damoclean as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Damocles)

noun:  A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.

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