Usually means: Naval officers below vice admirals.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. rear admirals: Merriam-Webster
  2. rear admirals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rear admirals: Vocabulary.com
  4. rear-admiral's: Wordnik
  5. rear admirals: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rear admirals, rear admirals (lower half), rear admirals (upper half): Wiktionary
  7. Rear admirals: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Rear admirals: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rear admirals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rear admirals: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rear_admiral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rear admiral)

noun:  (military, nautical) A naval officer below the rank of vice admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation.
noun:  (slang, humorous) A proctologist.
▸ Also see rear_admiral


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