Usually means: Small, mischievous, often poor child.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word urchin:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. urchin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. urchin: Merriam-Webster
  3. urchin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. urchin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. urchin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. urchin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Urchin, urchin: Wordnik
  8. urchin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. urchin: Wiktionary
  10. urchin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. urchin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. urchin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. urchin: Dictionary.com
  14. urchin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. urchin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Urchin, Urchin (band), Urchin (detonator), Urchin (film), Urchin (software), Urchin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Urchin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. urchin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. urchin: Rhymezone
  20. urchin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. urchin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. urchin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. urchin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. urchin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. urchin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. urchin: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Urchin (disambiguation), urchin: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urchin: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Urchin: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. urchin: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mischievous child.
noun:  A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
noun:  A sea urchin.
noun:  One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
noun:  (historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
noun:  (obsolete) A hedgehog.
noun:  (obsolete) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

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