Usually means: Unscrupulous men behaving inappropriately, dishonestly.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word cads:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. cads: Merriam-Webster
  2. cads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. CADS, cads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cads, cads: Wordnik
  5. cads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cads: Wiktionary
  7. CADS: Dictionary.com
  8. CADS: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. CADS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  10. CADS: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. CADS: Investopedia
  3. CADS: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CADS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CADS: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CADS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (CAD)

noun:  A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
noun:  (archaic) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, obsolete, slang) An idle hanger-on about innyards.
noun:  (computing, engineering) Initialism of computer-aided design. [The process of using drawings made by using a computer to design machines, buildings, etc.]
noun:  (computing) Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of control alt delete.
noun:  (import/export) Initialism of cash against documents: an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of coronary artery disease. [(pathology, cardiology) Any disease caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of cold agglutinin disease. [A rare autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of high concentrations of circulating cold-sensitive antibodies directed against red blood cells, causing them to agglutinate and undergo lysis.]
noun:  (public safety) Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
noun:  (biochemistry) Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
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