Usually means: Tasting of or containing salt.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. salty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. salty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. salty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. salty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. salty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Salty, salty: Wordnik
  7. salty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. salty: Wiktionary
  9. salty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. salty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. salty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. salty: Dictionary.com
  13. salty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. salty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Salty (album), Salty (disambiguation), Salty (film), Salty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Salty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. salty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. salty: Rhymezone
  19. salty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. salty: Free Dictionary
  21. salty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. salty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salty: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Salty (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. salty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Salty: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See saltier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tasting of salt.
adjective:  Containing salt.
adjective:  (figuratively, of language) Coarse; provocative; earthy.
adjective:  (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
adjective:  (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
adjective:  (linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).

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