Usually means: Search for gold or gems.
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  1. fossick: Merriam-Webster
  2. fossick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fossick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fossick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fossick: Wordnik
  6. fossick: Wiktionary
  7. fossick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fossick: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Fossick, fossick: Dictionary.com
  10. fossick: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. fossick: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fossick: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. Fossick: The Word Detective
  14. fossick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Fossick: World Wide Words
  16. fossick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fossick: A Word A Day

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand specifically) To elicit information; to ferret out.
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
verb:  (intransitive, British, dialect) To be troublesome.

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