Usually means: Edible crustacean, smaller than shrimp.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. prawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prawn: Merriam-Webster
  3. prawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prawn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prawn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prawn, prawn: Wordnik
  8. prawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prawn: Wiktionary
  10. prawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prawn, prawn: Dictionary.com
  14. prawn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Prawn (band), Prawn (disambiguation), Prawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prawn: Rhymezone
  19. prawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Prawn: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. prawn: FreeDictionary.org
  23. prawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prawn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prawn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prawn: Medical dictionary

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prawn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. prawn: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See prawned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prawn)

noun:  A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
noun:  (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
noun:  (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish for prawns.
noun:  Alternative form of porn. [(uncountable, informal) Pornography.]

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