Usually means: Repetitive pattern, difficult to escape.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rut: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rut, rut, rut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rut, rut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rut: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rut, rut: Wordnik
  7. rut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rut: Wiktionary
  9. rut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rut: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rut: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rut: Dictionary.com
  13. rut (1), rut (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rut: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RUT, Rut (The Killers song), Rut (mammalian reproduction), Rut (name), Rut (roads), Rut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rut: Rhymezone
  19. rut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rut: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rut: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. rut: Free Dictionary
  23. rut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rut: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. rut: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUT: Netlingo
  2. Rut (disambiguation), rut: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rut (disambiguation), rut: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUT: Acronym Finder
  2. RUT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rut: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rut: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
noun:  The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
noun:  Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
noun:  (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
verb:  (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
noun:  A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
noun:  (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
noun:  (figurative) A dull routine.
verb:  (transitive) To make a furrow.

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