Usually means: Offensive term for intellectual disability.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word retards:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. retards: Merriam-Webster
  2. retards: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retards: Vocabulary.com
  4. Retards, retards: Wordnik
  5. retards: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retards: Wiktionary
  7. retards: Dictionary.com
  8. retards: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. retards: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retards: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retards: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retards: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. retards: Medical dictionary

(Note: See retard as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retard)

noun:  Retardation; delay.
noun:  (music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
noun:  (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
noun:  (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
verb:  (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
verb:  (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.
▸ Also see retard


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