Usually means: Quick and agile in movement.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nimble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nimble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nimble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nimble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nimble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nimble, nimble: Wordnik
  7. nimble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nimble: Wiktionary
  9. nimble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nimble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nimble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nimble, nimble: Dictionary.com
  13. nimble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nimble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nimble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nimble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nimble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nimble: Rhymezone
  19. nimble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nimble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nimble: Free Dictionary
  22. nimble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nimble: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nimble: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)

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

(Note: See nimbleness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Adept at taking or grasping.
adjective:  Quick and light in movement or action.
adjective:  Quickwitted and alert.
verb:  (intransitive) To move nimbly.

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