Usually means: Active and lively, especially elderly.
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  1. spry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spry: Merriam-Webster
  3. spry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spry, spry: Wordnik
  8. spry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spry, spry: Wiktionary
  10. spry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spry: Dictionary.com
  14. spry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spry (family), Spry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spry: Rhymezone
  20. Spry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SPRY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. spry: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spry: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SPRY: Acronym Finder

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

(Note: See sprier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
adjective:  Vigorous; lively; cheerful.
noun:  A surname.

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