Usually means: Middle section of human torso.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word waist:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. waist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Waist: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. waist: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. WAIST: Acronym Finder
  4. waist: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waist: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Waist: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  3. Waist: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See waisted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
noun:  A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
noun:  The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
noun:  The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
noun:  (nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
noun:  The middle part of anything.

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