Usually means: Scavenger bird, feeds on carrion.
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  1. vulture: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vulture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vulture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vulture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vulture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vulture, vulture: Wordnik
  7. vulture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vulture: Wiktionary
  9. vulture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vulture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vulture: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Vulture, vulture: Dictionary.com
  13. vulture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vulture: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vulture (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), The Vulture (short story), The vulture, Vulture (DC Comics), Vulture (Marvel Comics), Vulture (South Africa UAV), Vulture (blog), Vulture (comics), Vulture (disambiguation), Vulture (hieroglyph), Vulture (magazine), Vulture (region), Vulture (web site), Vulture (website), Vulture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vulture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vulture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vulture: Rhymezone
  19. Vulture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vulture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vulture: Free Dictionary
  22. vulture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vulture: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. vulture: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. Vulture: Dictionary of Symbolism

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  1. vulture: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. VULTURE (DC Comics), vulture: Encyclopedia

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  2. VULTURE (DC Comics), vulture: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulture: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vulture: Easton Bible
  2. Vulture: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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  1. vulture: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
noun:  (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
verb:  (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
adjective:  (obsolete) ravenous; rapacious

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