Usually means: Laugh in a loud, harsh way.
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  1. cackle: Merriam-Webster
  2. cackle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cackle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cackle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cackle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cackle, cackle: Wordnik
  7. cackle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cackle: Wiktionary
  9. cackle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cackle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cackle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cackle, cackle: Dictionary.com
  13. cackle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cackle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cackle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cackle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cackle: Rhymezone
  18. cackle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cackle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cackle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cackle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cackle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cackle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cackle: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cackle: A Word A Day
  3. cackle: Idioms

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

(Note: See cackled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
noun:  A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
noun:  Futile or excessively noisy talk.
noun:  (collective) A group of hyenas.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
verb:  (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
verb:  (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
verb:  (transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.

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