Usually means: Relating to Greece, its people.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word greek:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Greek: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Greek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Greek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Greek: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Greek: Vocabulary.com
  6. Greek: Wordnik
  7. Greek, greek: Wiktionary
  8. Greek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Greek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Greek: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Greek, Greek, greek: Dictionary.com
  12. Greek: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. greek: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Greek (TV Series), Greek (TV series), Greek (disambiguation), Greek (language), Greek (opera), Greek (play), Greek (television series), Greek, The Greek (The Wire), The Greek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Greek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. greek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Greek: Rhymezone
  18. Greek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. greek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. GREEK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Greek: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Greek: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. greek: Free Dictionary
  24. greek: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Greek: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Greek: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Greek: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. greek: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. greek: CCI Computer
  3. Greek (disambiguation), Greek (language), Greek: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. greek: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Greek: Easton Bible
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Greek, Greek, Greek: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Greek: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See greeking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Greek)

adjective:  Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture
adjective:  (figurative, colloquial) Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
adjective:  (US, not comparable) Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, and/or (uncommon) honor societies.
noun:  The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
noun:  The written form of these languages.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
noun:  (uncountable) Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
noun:  (countable, US, colloquial) A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
noun:  (countable, archaic, slang) A cunning rogue.
noun:  (countable, archaic, slang) A merry fellow.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Anal sex.
noun:  (finance, chiefly in the plural) One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
verb:  (obsolete) To cheat at cards.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.
verb:  (transitive) To obscure a corporate logo that has not been permitted for use in a production.
verb:  (uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of greek. [(transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”). [The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”). [The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.]

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