Usually means: Meteor burning through Earth's atmosphere.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word shooting star:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. shooting star: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shooting star: Merriam-Webster
  3. shooting star, shooting star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shooting star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shooting star: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shooting star: Vocabulary.com
  7. shooting-star, shooting star: Wordnik
  8. shooting star: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shooting star: Wiktionary
  10. shooting star: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shooting star: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shooting star: Dictionary.com
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  14. shooting star: Rhymezone
  15. shooting star: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. shooting star: FreeDictionary.org
  17. shooting star: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. shooting star: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Shooting Star: Investopedia
  3. Shooting Star: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shooting star (astronomy), shooting star: Encyclopedia

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

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shooting Star: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Shooting Star: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Shooting Star: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. SHOOTING STAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shooting star: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shooting star: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shooting_stars as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shooting star)

noun:  A meteor, especially a streak of light in the night sky, caused by a meteoroid burning up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
noun:  Any of several wild flowering plants in the genus Dodecatheon, mostly found in Western North America.
noun:  The plant Primula meadia.

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