Usually means: Aquatic mollusk with hinged shell.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word clam:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. clam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. clam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clam, clam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clam, clam: Wordnik
  7. clam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CLAM, clam: Wiktionary
  9. clam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clam, clam: Dictionary.com
  13. clam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CLAM (audio software), Clam (disambiguation), Clam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clam: Rhymezone
  19. Clam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CLAM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. CLAM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Clam: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. clam: Free Dictionary
  25. clam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. clam: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. clam: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. clam: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clam-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. clam: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clam: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CLAM: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. clam: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clam, clam, clam, clam, clam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. the clam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See claming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
noun:  A type of strong pincers or forceps.
noun:  A kind of vise, usually of wood.
noun:  (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.
noun:  (slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
noun:  (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
noun:  (dated, US, slang) mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
verb:  To dig for clams.
noun:  A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
verb:  To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
adjective:  (obsolete) clammy.
noun:  clamminess; moisture
verb:  To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
verb:  To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
noun:  (rowing) Alternative form of CLAM
noun:  Alternative form of clem (“to starve”) [(Geordie, vulgar, slang) A testicle.]
noun:  (rowing) Acronym of Clip-on Load Adjusting Mechanism. A device that can be fitted onto an oar to adjust set.

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