Usually means: Thin, strong, and flexible texture.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word wiry:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wiry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wiry: Merriam-Webster
  3. wiry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wiry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wiry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wiry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wiry, wiry: Wordnik
  8. wiry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wiry: Wiktionary
  10. wiry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wiry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wiry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wiry: Dictionary.com
  14. wiry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WIRY (AM), WIRY: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wiry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wiry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wiry: Rhymezone
  19. Wiry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wiry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wiry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. wiry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wiry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wiry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wiry: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Resembling wire.
adjective:  Thin, muscular and flexible.

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