Usually means: Influence or power within society.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word clout:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. clout: Merriam-Webster
  2. clout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clout: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clout, clout: Wordnik
  7. clout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clout: Wiktionary
  9. clout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clout: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clout, clout: Dictionary.com
  13. clout: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clout (Offset song), Clout (band), Clout (nail), Clout (song), Clout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clout: Rhymezone
  19. Clout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clout: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CLOUT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Clout: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. clout: FreeDictionary.org
  24. Clout: The Word Detective
  25. clout: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. clout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. clout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clout: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clout: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLOUT: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLOUT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. clout, clout, clout, clout, clout, clout, clout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clout: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Clout: Urban Dictionary
  4. Clout: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See clouted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
noun:  (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
noun:  (baseball, informal) A home run.
noun:  (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
noun:  (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
noun:  (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
noun:  (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
noun:  A clout nail.
noun:  (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
verb:  To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
verb:  To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
verb:  To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
verb:  To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
verb:  To join or patch clumsily.
verb:  Dated form of clot. [(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.]

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