Usually means: Insect that forms swarming destructive groups.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. locust: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. locust: Merriam-Webster
  3. locust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. locust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. locust: Collins English Dictionary
  6. locust: Vocabulary.com
  7. Locust, locust, locust: Wordnik
  8. locust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. locust: Wiktionary
  10. locust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. locust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. locust: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Locust, locust: Dictionary.com
  14. locust (1), locust (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. locust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Locust (album), Locust (car), Locust (disambiguation), Locust (film), Locust (finance), Locust (insect), Locust, The Locust (EP), The Locust (album), The Locust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Locust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. locust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. locust: Rhymezone
  20. Locust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. locust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. locust: FreeDictionary.org
  23. locust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. locust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. locust: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. locust: Cook's Thesaurus
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Locust (insect), locust: Encyclopedia

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

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locust: Easton Bible
  2. Locust: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

(Note: See locusting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Locust)

noun:  Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
noun:  (now historical) A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
noun:  Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
noun:  A cicada.
noun:  (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mainlander.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A dose of laudanum.
verb:  (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
noun:  A surname.

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