Usually means: Small fish, often canned, edible.
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  1. sprat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sprat: Merriam-Webster
  3. sprat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sprat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sprat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sprat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sprat, sprat: Wordnik
  8. sprat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sprat: Wiktionary
  10. sprat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sprat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sprat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sprat: Dictionary.com
  14. sprat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sprat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sprat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sprat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sprat: Rhymezone
  19. Sprat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sprat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sprat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. sprat: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sprat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sprat: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sprat: Encyclopedia

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  1. SPRAT: Acronym Finder
  2. sprat: A Word A Day

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
noun:  Any of various similar fish of other genera.
noun:  (by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
verb:  (transitive, historical) To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).

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