Usually means: A female name of English origin.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word shirley:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shirley: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shirley, shirley: Wordnik
  3. Shirley: Wiktionary
  4. Shirley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Shirley: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Shirley: Dictionary.com
  7. Shirley (MBTA station), Shirley (TV series), Shirley (album), Shirley (film), Shirley (horse), Shirley (name), Shirley (novel), Shirley (upcoming film), Shirley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Shirley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. shirley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Shirley: Rhymezone
  11. Shirley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. shirley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. shirley: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Shirley: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shirley: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shirley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shirley: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Shirley)

noun:  An English habitational surname
noun:  (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A female given name transferred from the surname, popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
noun:  Various places in England:
noun:  A village in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2141).
noun:  A suburb of the borough of Croydon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3565).
noun:  A hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SZ1798).
noun:  A suburb of Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4013).
noun:  A town in Warwickshire, and a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP1278).
noun:  Various places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kings County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois.
noun:  A town in Hancock County and Henry County, Indiana.
noun:  A town in Piscataquis County, Maine.
noun:  A town and census-designated place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
noun:  A hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York.
noun:  A hamlet in Erie County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Brown County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
adverb:  (informal, humorous) surely

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