Usually means: Dispose of unwanted items quickly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dump: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dump, dump: Wordnik
  7. dump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dump: Wiktionary
  9. dump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dump: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dump: Dictionary.com
  13. dump (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DUMP, Dump (band), Dump (program), Dump, The Dump (saloon): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dump: Rhymezone
  19. dump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dump: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dump: Free Dictionary
  23. dump: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. dump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dump: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. The Dump, dump: Legal dictionary
  3. dump: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dump: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. dump: CCI Computer
  3. dump: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. The Dump, dump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Dump, dump: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dUMP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dump: Idioms
  4. dump: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. dump, dump, dump, dump, dump, dump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dump: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Dump: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Dump (taking a): Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. D'ump, the dump: Urban Dictionary
  6. Dump: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dump: Pinochle Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Dump: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Dump: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
noun:  A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
noun:  That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
noun:  (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
noun:  (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
noun:  (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
noun:  A storage place for supplies, especially military.
noun:  (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
noun:  (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
noun:  Absence of mind; reverie.
noun:  (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
noun:  (obsolete) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
noun:  (obsolete) An old kind of dance.
noun:  (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
noun:  (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
verb:  (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
verb:  (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
verb:  (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To knock heavily; to stump.
verb:  (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
verb:  (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
verb:  (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
noun:  (UK, archaic) A thick, ill-shapen piece.
noun:  (UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
noun:  (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
noun:  A city in Toledo District, Belize.

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