Usually means: Mischievous creature causing mechanical failures.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word gremlin:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. gremlin: Merriam-Webster
  2. gremlin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gremlin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gremlin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gremlin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gremlin, gremlin: Wordnik
  7. gremlin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gremlin: Wiktionary
  9. gremlin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gremlin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gremlin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gremlin: Dictionary.com
  13. gremlin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gremlin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gremlin (car), Gremlin (comics), Gremlin (disambiguation), Gremlin (programming language), Gremlin (protein), Gremlin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. gremlin: Rhymezone
  17. gremlin: FreeDictionary.org
  18. gremlin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. gremlin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Gremlin: World Wide Words
  21. gremlin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. gremlin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gremlin: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gremlin: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gremlin, gremlin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gremlin, gremlin: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gremlin: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See gremlins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (originally British, aviation, Royal Air Force slang)
noun:  (obsolete) A contemptible person.
noun:  (mythology) An imaginary creature reputed to be mischievously inclined, for example, to damage or dismantle machinery.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  Any mysterious, unknown source of mischief or trouble, or the problem created thereby.
noun:  (surfing, skateboarding, slang) A young, inexperienced surfer or skateboarder, regarded as a nuisance.

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