Usually means: Ghost causing physical disturbances, noises.
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  1. poltergeist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poltergeist: Merriam-Webster
  3. poltergeist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poltergeist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poltergeist: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. poltergeist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poltergeist: Wiktionary
  10. poltergeist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poltergeist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poltergeist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. poltergeist: Dictionary.com
  14. poltergeist: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  2. Poltergeist: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. poltergeist: A Word A Day
  4. poltergeist: The Skeptic's Dictionary

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  1. The poltergeist: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Poltergeist)

noun:  (parapsychology) An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
noun:  (planets) A planet in Lich star system, Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo constellation; One of the pair of planets that were the first exoplanets which were discovered. A planet in orbit of the pulsar Lich (PSR B1257+12)

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