Usually means: Larval stage of certain flies.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. maggot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. maggot: Merriam-Webster
  3. maggot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. maggot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. maggot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. maggot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Maggot, maggot: Wordnik
  8. maggot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. maggot: Wiktionary
  10. maggot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. maggot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. maggot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. maggot: Dictionary.com
  14. maggot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. maggot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Maggot (rapper), Maggot, The Maggot (album), The Maggot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Maggot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. maggot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. maggot: Rhymezone
  20. Maggot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. maggot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. maggot: FreeDictionary.org
  23. maggot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Maggot: The Word Detective
  25. maggot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maggot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. maggot: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Maggot: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. maggot: Medical dictionary
  6. Maggot: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Maggot: HYPP Zoology
  2. Biological Control (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Maggot (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. maggot, maggot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. maggot: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Maggot: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. maggot: The Folk File

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
noun:  (derogatory) A worthless person.
noun:  (archaic or dialect) A whimsy or fancy.
noun:  (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
verb:  (transitive) To rid (an animal) of maggots.
adjective:  (colloquial, Australia) Alternative form of maggoted (“drunk; intoxicated”) [Affected (partially eaten) by maggots.]

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