Usually means: Shortened tail of an animal.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word bobtail:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. bobtail: Merriam-Webster
  2. bobtail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bobtail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bobtail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bobtail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bobtail, bobtail: Wordnik
  7. bobtail: Wiktionary
  8. bobtail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bobtail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bobtail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bobtail, bobtail: Dictionary.com
  12. Bobtail (disambiguation), Bobtail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bobtail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bobtail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bobtail: Rhymezone
  16. Bobtail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bobtail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. BOBTAIL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. bobtail: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bobtail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bobtail: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bobtail (dog), bobtail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bobtail (dog), bobtail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bobtail: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bobtail, bobtail, bobtail, bobtail, bobtail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See bobtailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bobtail)

noun:  A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
noun:  An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
noun:  (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
noun:  A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
noun:  The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer
noun:  (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
noun:  A bobtail squid
noun:  A bobtail skink
verb:  (agriculture) To drive a tractor without its trailer.
verb:  To drive a truck or other vehicle without its trailer.

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