Usually means: Minor argument or brief quarrel.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spat: Merriam-Webster
  3. spat, spat, spat, spat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spat, spat, spat, spat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spat, spat: Wordnik
  8. spat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spat: Wiktionary
  10. spat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spat: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spat: Dictionary.com
  14. spat (1), spat (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spat (disambiguation), Spat (footwear), Spat (molluscs), Spat (unit), Spat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spat: Rhymezone
  20. Spat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SPAT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. spat: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. spat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. spat: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spat, spat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.P.A.T, spat: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See spit as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
noun:  A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
noun:  (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
noun:  (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
noun:  (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
noun:  A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
verb:  (originally US, intransitive) To quarrel or argue briefly.
noun:  A light blow with something flat.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
verb:  (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
noun:  An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.

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