Usually means: Short, thick digit on hand.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word thumb:

General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. thumb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thumb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thumb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thumb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thumb, thumb: Wordnik
  7. thumb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Thumb, Thumb, Thumb: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. thumb: Wiktionary
  10. thumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thumb: Dictionary.com
  14. thumb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. thumb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Thumb (Queensland), The Thumb, Thumb (backhoe), Thumb (band), Thumb (disambiguation), Thumb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thumb: Rhymezone
  20. thumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Thumb: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Thumb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. thumb: Free Dictionary
  25. thumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. thumb: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. thumb: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. thumb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

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

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Thumb: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Thumb: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Thumb: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. thumb: Medical dictionary
  7. Thumb: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THUMB: Acronym Finder
  3. thumb: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thumb: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. thumb, thumb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Thumb: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Thumb (verb): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
noun:  (graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
noun:  (colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
verb:  (transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
verb:  (transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
verb:  (travel) To hitchhike
verb:  To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
verb:  To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
verb:  To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.

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