Usually means: Dominant male in gorilla group.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. silverback: Merriam-Webster
  2. silverback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silverback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silverback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. silverback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Silverback, silverback: Wordnik
  7. silverback: Wiktionary
  8. silverback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. silverback: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. silverback: Dictionary.com
  11. Silverback (disambiguation), Silverback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Silverback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. silverback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. silverback: Rhymezone
  15. Silverback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. silverback: FreeDictionary.org
  17. silverback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. silverback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silverback: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silverback: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silverback (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Silverback: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See silverbacking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (silverback)

noun:  (mammalogy) A mature male gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
noun:  (informal, by extension) A dominant older human male.
noun:  Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.

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