Usually means: Efficient use of resources, streamlined.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lean, lean: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lean, lean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lean, lean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lean: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lean, lean: Wordnik
  7. lean: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lean, lean: Wiktionary
  9. lean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lean: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lean: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lean, lean: Dictionary.com
  13. lean (adj.), lean (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lean: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lean (drug), Lean (proof assistant), Lean (recreational drug), Lean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lean: Rhymezone
  19. lean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lean: Free Dictionary
  22. lean: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Lean: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lean: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lean: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. LEAN: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lean: Legal dictionary

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

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. LEAN: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. lean: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lean, lean, lean, lean, lean, lean: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lean: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Lean: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. lean: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
verb:  (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
verb:  (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
verb:  To hang outwards.
verb:  To press against.
noun:  (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
adjective:  (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
adjective:  (of meat) Having little fat.
adjective:  Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
adjective:  Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
adjective:  (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
adjective:  (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
noun:  (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
noun:  (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
verb:  To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
verb:  To conceal.
noun:  (slang, US) A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
noun:  A surname.

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