Usually means: Inept person; skilled hunter originally.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word nimrod:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. nimrod: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Nimrod: Merriam-Webster
  3. nimrod: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Nimrod, nimrod: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Nimrod: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Nimrod: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nimrod, nimrod: Wordnik
  8. Nimrod, nimrod: Wiktionary
  9. Nimrod: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nimrod: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Nimrod: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nimrod, nimrod: Dictionary.com
  13. Nimrod: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. NIMROD, Nimrod (AFV), Nimrod (Bible), Nimrod (Doctor Who), Nimrod (album), Nimrod (comics), Nimrod (computer), Nimrod (computing), Nimrod (disambiguation), Nimrod (king), Nimrod (missile), Nimrod (ship), Nimrod (synchrotron), Nimrod (vampire), Nimrod: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nimrod: Rhymezone
  16. Nimrod: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. nimrod: FreeDictionary.org
  18. nimrod: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Nimrod: The Word Detective
  20. Nimrod: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nimrod (disambiguation), Nimrod: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nimrod: A Word A Day
  2. nimrod, nimrod: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nimrod: Easton Bible
  2. Nimrod: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Nimrod: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Nimrod)

noun:  (chiefly US, informal, derogatory) A foolish person; an idiot.
noun:  (biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
noun:  A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
noun:  A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.
noun:  Any great hunter.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”) [(chiefly US, informal, derogatory) A foolish person; an idiot.]

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