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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word murphy:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Murphy: Merriam-Webster
  2. Murphy, murphy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Murphy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. murphy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. murphy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Murphy, murphy: Wordnik
  7. Murphy, murphy: Wiktionary
  8. murphy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. murphy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Murphy, murphy: Dictionary.com
  11. Murphy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Murphy (disambiguation), Murphy (given name), Murphy (novel), Murphy (novella), Murphy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Murphy: Rhymezone
  14. Murphy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. murphy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. murphy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Murphy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Murphy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. murphy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. Murphy: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Murphy: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. MURPHY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. murphy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. murphy, murphy, murphy, Murphy, Murphy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Murphy, The Murphy: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See murphying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Murphy)

noun:  A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
noun:  A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
noun:  A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.
noun:  A city in Collin County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
noun:  A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.
noun:  An Irish or white potato.
noun:  (slang) Short for Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”). [Any of several confidence tricks in which something worthless is substituted for something of value, often in a sealed envelope.]

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