Usually means: Paste for repairing wall imperfections.
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  1. Spackle, spackle: Merriam-Webster
  2. spackle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Spackle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spackle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spackle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spackle, spackle: Wordnik
  7. Spackle, spackle: Wiktionary
  8. Spackle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Spackle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spackle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spackle: Dictionary.com
  12. Spackle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Spackle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. spackle: Rhymezone
  15. spackle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. spackle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Spackle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. spackle: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spackle: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Spackle, spackle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Spackle)

noun:  Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.
noun:  A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster.
noun:  A paste-like substance that fills a gap.
verb:  (transitive) To fill or repair with a plastic paste.
verb:  (intransitive) To fill cracks or holes with a spackle.
verb:  To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of spackle [Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.]

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