Usually means: Protrusion or swelling in structure.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word bulge:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bulge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bulge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bulge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bulge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bulge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bulge, bulge: Wordnik
  7. bulge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bulge: Wiktionary
  9. bulge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bulge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bulge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bulge: Dictionary.com
  13. bulge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bulge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bulge (anatomy), Bulge (astronomy), Bulge, The Bulge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bulge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bulge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bulge: Rhymezone
  19. bulge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bulge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bulge: Free Dictionary
  22. bulge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bulge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. bulge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. bulge: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Bulge: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bulge: Investopedia
  7. Bulge (dab), Bulge (disambiguation), bulge: Legal dictionary
  8. Bulge (dab), Bulge (disambiguation), Bulge: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bulge (Earth), Bulge (astronomy), Bulge (equator), bulge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hair Facts (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bulge: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bulge: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bulge, bulge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bulge: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Bulge: Urban Dictionary
  4. Bulge: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bulge: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. BULGE: Power Engineering

(Note: See bulged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
noun:  The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
noun:  (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
noun:  (colloquial) The outline of male genitals visible through clothing.
noun:  (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
verb:  (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell.
verb:  (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

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