Usually means: Joint connecting forearm to upper arm.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word elbow:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elbow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elbow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elbow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elbow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elbow, elbow: Wordnik
  7. elbow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Elbow, Elbow, Elbow, Elbow: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. elbow: Wiktionary
  10. elbow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. elbow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. elbow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. elbow: Dictionary.com
  14. elbow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. elbow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Elbow (band), Elbow (disambiguation), Elbow (lunar crater), Elbow (piping), Elbow (strike), Elbow, The Elbow (reef): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Elbow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. elbow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. elbow: Rhymezone
  20. elbow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. elbow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Elbow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. elbow: Free Dictionary
  24. elbow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. elbow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. elbow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. elbow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Elbow: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Elbow: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. elbow: Medical dictionary
  6. Elbow: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbow: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbow, elbow, elbow, elbow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Elbow: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elbow: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  3. Pool Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See elbowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
noun:  (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
noun:  (US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
noun:  (basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
noun:  A hit with the elbow.
noun:  (knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb:  (transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
verb:  To strike with the elbow.
verb:  To nudge, jostle or push.
verb:  (informal, with "out" or "aside") To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.

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