Usually means: Oxidized, deteriorated due to exposure.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rusty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rusty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rusty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rusty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rusty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rusty, rusty: Wordnik
  7. rusty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rusty, rusty: Wiktionary
  9. rusty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rusty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rusty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rusty, rusty: Dictionary.com
  13. rusty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rusty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rusty (Rodan album), Rusty (Slick Shoes album), Rusty (band), Rusty (disambiguation), Rusty (film series), Rusty (locomotive), Rusty (video game), Rusty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rusty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rusty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rusty: Rhymezone
  19. rusty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rusty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rusty: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rusty: Free Dictionary
  23. rusty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rusty: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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  1. rusty: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rusty, rusty, rusty, rusty, rusty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rusty (Bullet hole), The Rusty, rusty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rustier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Marked or corroded by rust.
adjective:  Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
adjective:  Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
adjective:  (now chiefly historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.
adjective:  Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
adjective:  Discolored and rancid; reasty.
noun:  A male given name

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