Usually means: Striped coat pattern in cats.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word tabby:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabby: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tabby: Merriam-Webster
  3. tabby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tabby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tabby: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tabby: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tabby, tabby: Wordnik
  8. tabby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tabby, tabby: Wiktionary
  10. tabby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tabby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tabby: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tabby: Dictionary.com
  14. tabby: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tabby (cat), Tabby (cement), Tabby (disambiguation), Tabby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tabby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tabby: Rhymezone
  18. Tabby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tabby: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tabby: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tabby: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. tabby: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tabby: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabby: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabby: A Word A Day
  2. tabby: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tabby: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tabby, tabby: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Tabby, tabby: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tabby: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See tabbies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
noun:  (uncountable) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
noun:  (countable) A brindled cat.
noun:  (countable, archaic) An old maid or gossip.
adjective:  Having a wavy or watered appearance.
adjective:  Brindled; diversified in color.
verb:  (transitive) To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile).
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Tabitha.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Tabetha.

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