Usually means: Domesticated bovine used for labor.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ox, ox-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ox, ox-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ox, ox-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ox, ox-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ox: Vocabulary.com
  6. OX, Ox, ox, ox, oX: Wordnik
  7. ox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ox, ox: Wiktionary
  9. ox, ox-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ox: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ox, Ox, ox, ox-: Dictionary.com
  13. ox: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ox: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OX (rock musician), OX, Ox (Chinese constellation), Ox (Ronald Bloch), Ox (Zodiac), Ox (album), Ox (band), Ox (comics), Ox (disambiguation), Ox (nickname), Ox (programming language), Ox (restaurant), Ox (zodiac), Ox, The Ox (The Who song), The Ox (film), The Ox (instrumental): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ox: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ox: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ox: Rhymezone
  19. Ox: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ox: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. OX, ox: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Ox: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. ox: Free Dictionary
  24. ox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ox: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. ox, ox-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ox-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ox: Glossary of research economics

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ox, ox-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OX: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ox: Easton Bible
  2. Ox: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OX: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ox: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Ox: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. o.x, the Ox: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See oxen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus), especially when used as a beast of burden.
noun:  Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
noun:  (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Capricorn, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
noun:  The second of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Abbreviation of oxygen. [The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.]
noun:  Clipping of Oxford. [A city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, famous for its university.]

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