Usually means: Beetle that damages cotton crops.
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  1. boll weevil: Merriam-Webster
  2. boll weevil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boll weevil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boll weevil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boll weevil: Vocabulary.com
  6. boll-weevil: Wordnik
  7. boll weevil: Wiktionary
  8. boll weevil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. boll weevil: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. boll weevil: Dictionary.com
  11. Boll Weevil (restaurant), Boll Weevil (song), Boll weevil (disambiguation), Boll weevil (politics), Boll weevil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. boll weevil: Rhymezone
  13. boll weevil: FreeDictionary.org
  14. boll weevil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. boll weevil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. boll weevil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. boll weevil: Encyclopedia

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  1. boll weevil: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (boll weevil)

noun:  A beetle (Anthonomus grandis) measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers, native to Central America.
noun:  (US politics, informal, dated) A conservative Southern Democrat.

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