Usually means: Obsessive pursuit of elusive goal.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word white whale:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. white whale: Merriam-Webster
  2. white whale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. white whale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. white whale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. white whale: Vocabulary.com
  6. white whale: Wordnik
  7. white whale: Wiktionary
  8. white whale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. white whale: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. white whale: Dictionary.com
  11. White Whale (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), White Whale (band), White Whale (disambiguation), White whale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. white whale: Rhymezone
  13. white whale: FreeDictionary.org
  14. white whale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. white whale: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. White Whale (disambiguation), white whale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. White Whale (disambiguation), white whale: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The White Whale, white whale: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See white_whales as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (white whale)

noun:  Synonym of beluga (“the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), a cetacean found in the Arctic Ocean”)
noun:  Any whale of the family Monodontidae, which comprises the beluga whales and narwhals (Monodon monoceros), and some extinct species.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  An obsession, a monomania.
noun:  (collectible card games) A printing plate, used to manufacture a particular sports card, that is then issued as a collectible itself.

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