Usually means: Path leading nowhere; unproductive route.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. blind alley: Merriam-Webster
  2. blind alley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blind alley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blind alley: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blind alley: Vocabulary.com
  6. blind alley: Wordnik
  7. blind alley: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blind alley: Wiktionary
  9. blind alley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blind alley: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Blind alley, blind alley: Dictionary.com
  12. Blind Alley (disambiguation), Blind Alley (film), Blind Alley, Blind alley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. blind alley: Rhymezone
  14. Blind Alley: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. blind alley: FreeDictionary.org
  16. blind alley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. blind alley: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. blind alley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

(Note: See blind_alleys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blind alley)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blind, alley. A street or passageway that leads nowhere.
noun:  (figurative) A course of inquiry that leads nowhere.

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