Usually means: Absorbent cotton fabric with loops.
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  1. Terry: Merriam-Webster
  2. terry: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Terry, terry: Vocabulary.com
  4. Terry, terry: Wordnik
  5. terry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Terry, terry: Wiktionary
  7. terry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. terry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. terry: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. terry: Dictionary.com
  11. terry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Terry (Emmerdale), Terry (Kirsty MacColl song), Terry (Twinkle song), Terry (book), Terry (disambiguation), Terry (dog), Terry (film), Terry (surname), Terry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Terry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. terry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. terry: Rhymezone
  16. Terry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. terry: FreeDictionary.org
  18. terry: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. terry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Terry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. terry: Merriam-Webster
  22. terry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  23. terry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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  1. terry: Encyclopedia

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. terry: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Terry: Bicycle Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
noun:  (Commonwealth, dated) Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
noun:  (euphemistic) A terrorist
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
noun:  A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
noun:  A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
noun:  A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Leopold Township, Perry County, Indiana.
noun:  A township in Finney County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A town in Hinds County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
noun:  A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
noun:  A small town, the county seat of Prairie County, Montana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

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