Usually means: Fibers collected from clothes, fabric.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lint:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lint: Merriam-Webster
  3. lint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lint: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lint: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lint, lint: Wordnik
  8. lint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lint, lint: Wiktionary
  10. lint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lint: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lint: Dictionary.com
  14. lint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lint (disambiguation), Lint (material), Lint (software), Lint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lint: Rhymezone
  20. lint, lint (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. LINT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. lint: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lint: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lint: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lint: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See linting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
noun:  A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
noun:  The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
noun:  Raw cotton ready for baling.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.
noun:  A surname.

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