Usually means: Frozen raindrops, partially melted ice.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word sleet:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sleet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sleet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sleet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sleet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sleet, sleet: Wordnik
  7. sleet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sleet: Wiktionary
  9. sleet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sleet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sleet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sleet: Dictionary.com
  13. sleet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sleet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sleet (disambiguation), Sleet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sleet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sleet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sleet: Rhymezone
  19. sleet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sleet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sleet: Free Dictionary
  22. sleet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sleet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleet: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sleet: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Sleet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sleeted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
noun:  (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
noun:  (firearms) Part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
verb:  (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

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