Usually means: Initiate legal action against someone.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sue, sue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Sue, sue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sue, sue: Wordnik
  7. sue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sue, sue: Wiktionary
  9. sue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sue: Dictionary.com
  13. sue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sue (Or in a Season of Crime), Sue (album), Sue (dinosaur), Sue (disambiguation), Sue (name), Sue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Sue: Rhymezone
  19. sue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sue: Free Dictionary
  22. sue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Sue, sue: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Sue: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -sue: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. sue: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sue: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. SUE: Acronym Finder
  3. SUE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sue: Idioms

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
verb:  (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To court.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.
noun:  (informal) Synonym of Mary Sue (“type of character in fiction”)

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