Usually means: Small, spiny marine creatures; children.
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  1. urchins: Merriam-Webster
  2. urchins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. urchins: Vocabulary.com
  4. Urchins, urchin's, urchins: Wordnik
  5. urchins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. urchins: Wiktionary
  7. urchins: Dictionary.com
  8. urchins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. urchins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. urchins: Encyclopedia

(Note: See urchin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (urchin)

noun:  A mischievous child.
noun:  A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
noun:  A sea urchin.
noun:  One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
noun:  (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
noun:  (obsolete) A hedgehog.
noun:  (obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
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