Usually means: Close to block or stop.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shut: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shut, shut: Wordnik
  7. shut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shut: Wiktionary
  9. shut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shut: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shut: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shut: Dictionary.com
  13. shut: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shut: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shut: Rhymezone
  19. shut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shut: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHUT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. shut: Free Dictionary
  23. shut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shut: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. shut: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shut: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shut: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHUT: Acronym Finder
  2. shut: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shut, shut: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shut, shut (it): Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See shuting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
verb:  (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business) temporarily.
verb:  (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.
verb:  (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
verb:  (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
verb:  (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
adjective:  Closed; not open.
adjective:  (linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close
noun:  The act or time of shutting; close.
noun:  A door or cover; a shutter.
noun:  The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
noun:  (British, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

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