Usually means: Inclined or eager to fight.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bellicose: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bellicose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bellicose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bellicose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bellicose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bellicose, bellicose: Wordnik
  7. bellicose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bellicose: Wiktionary
  9. bellicose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bellicose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bellicose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bellicose, bellicose: Dictionary.com
  13. bellicose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bellicose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bellicose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bellicose: Rhymezone
  17. Bellicose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bellicose: Free Dictionary
  19. bellicose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bellicose: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. bellicose: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bellicose: Legal dictionary

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bellicose: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bellicosity as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
adjective:  Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

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