Usually means: Silence imposed to maintain secrecy.
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  1. hush: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hush, hush: Wordnik
  7. hush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hush: Wiktionary
  9. hush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hush: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hush, hush: Dictionary.com
  13. hush: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Hush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hush: Rhymezone
  19. Hush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hush: Free Dictionary
  22. hush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hush: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hush (movie), hush: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hush: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HUSH: Acronym Finder
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  3. hush: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hush, hush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. hush: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hushed as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To become quiet.
verb:  (transitive) To make quiet.
verb:  (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
verb:  (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
noun:  A silence, especially after some noise
noun:  A mining method using water

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