Usually means: Discarded waste, often in public.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. litter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. litter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. litter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. litter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. litter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Litter, litter: Wordnik
  7. litter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. litter: Wiktionary
  9. litter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. litter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. litter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Litter, litter: Dictionary.com
  13. litter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. litter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Litter (animal), Litter (disambiguation), Litter (rescue basket), Litter (vehicle), Litter (zoology), Litter, The Litter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Litter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. litter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. litter: Rhymezone
  19. litter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. litter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. litter: Free Dictionary
  22. litter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. litter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. litter: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Global Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Litter (vehicle), litter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. litter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. litter: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Litter: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. litter: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See littered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
noun:  (collective, countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
noun:  (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
noun:  (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
noun:  (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
noun:  (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
noun:  A covering of straw for plants.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
verb:  (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
verb:  (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
verb:  (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
verb:  (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
verb:  (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

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