Usually means: Suspended bed for relaxing outdoors.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hammock, hammock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. hammock: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hammock: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hammock, hammock: Wordnik
  5. hammock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Hammock, hammock: Wiktionary
  7. hammock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. hammock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hammock: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hammock, hammock: Dictionary.com
  11. hammock: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. hammock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Hammock (band), Hammock (disambiguation), Hammock (ecology), Hammock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hammock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hammock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hammock: Rhymezone
  17. Hammock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. HAMMOCK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. hammock: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hammock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hammock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hammock: Merriam-Webster
  23. hammock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  24. hammock: The Word Spy
  25. hammock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hammock: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hammock: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hammock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hammock: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hammocking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
noun:  (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
verb:  (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
verb:  (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
verb:  (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
verb:  (transitive, broadcasting) To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.
noun:  A surname.

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