Usually means: Remove outer layer from something.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word peel:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. peel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Peel, peel: Merriam-Webster
  3. Peel, Peel, peel, peel, peel, peel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peel, peel, peel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Peel, peel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peel, peel: Wordnik
  8. peel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Peel, peel: Wiktionary
  10. peel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. peel: Dictionary.com
  14. peel (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. peel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Peel (Western Australia), Peel (band), Peel (electoral district), Peel (film), Peel (fruit), Peel (provincial electoral district), Peel (software), Peel (tool), Peel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Peel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. peel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. peel: Rhymezone
  20. peel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. peel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PEEL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Peel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. peel: FreeDictionary.org
  25. peel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Peel: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. peel: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEEL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. peel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. peel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. peel: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. peel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. Peel: Castle Terms
  4. PEEL: Acronym Finder
  5. peel: Idioms

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

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peel: Croquet
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Peel: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See peelable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
verb:  (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
verb:  (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
verb:  (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
verb:  (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
noun:  (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
noun:  (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
noun:  (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
noun:  (obsolete) A stake.
noun:  (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
noun:  (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
noun:  A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
noun:  A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
noun:  (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
noun:  (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
noun:  (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
verb:  (curling) To play a peel shot.
verb:  (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A town in the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC2484).
noun:  A former county in Ontario, Canada, abolished in 1974.
noun:  A regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, created in 1974.
noun:  A region south of Perth, Western Australia.
noun:  (uncountable) Robert Peel, British Prime Minister.
noun:  Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”) [A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.]
verb:  Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly. [(intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.]

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