Usually means: Defeat marking the end, famously.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Waterloo:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterloo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Waterloo, waterloo: Merriam-Webster
  3. Waterloo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Waterloo, waterloo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Waterloo: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Waterloo, waterloo: Vocabulary.com
  7. Waterloo, waterloo: Wordnik
  8. Waterloo: Wiktionary
  9. Waterloo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Waterloo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. waterloo: Dictionary.com
  12. Waterloo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Waterloo (ABBA song), Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song), Waterloo (album), Waterloo (blog post), Waterloo (electoral district), Waterloo (film), Waterloo (horse), Waterloo (movie), Waterloo (provincial electoral district), Waterloo (ship), Waterloo (video game), Waterloo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Waterloo: Rhymezone
  15. Waterloo: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  16. waterloo: FreeDictionary.org
  17. waterloo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Waterloo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waterloo (disambiguation), Waterloo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterloo: A Word A Day
  2. Waterloo: Idioms
  3. Waterloo: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. waterloo, waterloo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Waterloo: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A village in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; the site of a major military battle in 1815.
noun:  A battle fought at Waterloo, Belgium on June 18, 1815, resulting in the epic, final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
noun:  The name of any of several villages, towns, and cities around the world.
noun:  A place in Canada:
noun:  A rural community of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
noun:  A regional municipality and city in Ontario, Canada.
noun:  A city in La Haute-Yamaska regional county municipality, Estrie, Quebec.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Illinois.
noun:  A town in Grant Township and Smithfield Township, DeKalb County, Indiana.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Fayette County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa.
noun:  A village and town, the county seat of Seneca County, New York.
noun:  A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town and city therein, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Waterloo Township.
noun:  A number of places in the United Kingdom:
noun:  A district and large railway terminus in central London, England (OS grid ref TQ3180).
noun:  A hamlet in Blisland parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1072).
noun:  A northern suburb of Poole, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0094).
noun:  Former name of Waterlooville, Hampshire, although Waterloo is still the name of a council ward in Waterlooville for Havant borough.
noun:  A small suburb in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6625).
noun:  A suburb of Crosby, Sefton borough, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3198).
noun:  A small village in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2219).
noun:  A small village in South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM1479).
noun:  A hamlet in Whixall parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4933).
noun:  An eastern suburb of Huddersfield, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1716).
noun:  A hamlet in Rudry community, Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1988).
noun:  A suburb of Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9703).
noun:  A city in the Western Area of Sierra Leone.
noun:  A place in Australia:
noun:  An inner southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
noun:  A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland.
noun:  A settlement in Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area, South Australia.
noun:  A locality in Pyrenees Shire, Victoria.
noun:  A small town in the Shire of Dardanup, Western Australia.
noun:  A suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
noun:  A barangay of Matalom, Leyte, Philippines
noun:  Often in the term meet one's Waterloo: a notable and decisive defeat following an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult.

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