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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buffalo, buffalo: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Buffalo, buffalo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Buffalo, buffalo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buffalo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Buffalo, buffalo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buffalo, Buffalo, buffalo: Wordnik
  7. buffalo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Buffalo, buffalo: Wiktionary
  9. buffalo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buffalo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buffalo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buffalo: Dictionary.com
  13. buffalo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. buffalo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Buffalo (EP), Buffalo (Frank Zappa album), Buffalo (NFL), Buffalo (NY), Buffalo (The Phoenix Foundation album), Buffalo (album), Buffalo (band), Buffalo (card game), Buffalo (disambiguation), Buffalo (footwear), Buffalo (game), Buffalo (mine protected vehicle), Buffalo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Buffalo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. buffalo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. buffalo: Rhymezone
  19. buffalo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. buffalo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BUFFALO: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. buffalo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. buffalo: Free Dictionary
  24. buffalo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Buffalo: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. buffalo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Buffalo: The Word Detective

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buffalo, buffalo: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buffalo (disambiguation), buffalo: Encyclopedia
  2. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Buffalo (disambiguation), Buffalo (oxen), buffalo: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BUFFALO: Acronym Finder
  3. buffalo: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buffalo, buffalo, buffalo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See buffaloed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
noun:  A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
noun:  The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
noun:  (US slang) A nickel.
noun:  (slang, US, historical) A looter during the Civil War.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A large or stupid person.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) An obese person, usually a woman.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, offensive) A black male.
verb:  (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
verb:  (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
noun:  A number of places in the United States, including:
noun:  A city, the county seat of Erie County, New York, very near Niagara Falls.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Wright County, Minnesota.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Dallas County, Missouri.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Harper County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Harding County, South Dakota.
noun:  A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, not to be confused with Buffalo City in the same county.
noun:  A town in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Wyoming.
noun:  A number of townships, including in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Buffalo Township.
noun:  Ellipsis of buffalo robe. [(US, historical) A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.]
noun:  Short for American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”). [Bison bison; Synonym of American bison]

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