Usually means: Outdated, offensive term for deafness.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word deaf and dumb:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. deaf and dumb: Merriam-Webster
  2. deaf-and-dumb, deaf-and-dumb: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deaf-and-dumb: Vocabulary.com
  4. deaf and dumb: Wordnik
  5. deaf and dumb: Wiktionary
  6. deaf-and-dumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. deaf-and-dumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Deaf and dumb, deaf-and-dumb, deaf and dumb: Dictionary.com
  9. Deaf and dumb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. deaf-and-dumb: Rhymezone
  11. deaf-and-dumb, deaf and dumb: FreeDictionary.org
  12. deaf-and-dumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. deaf-and-dumb, deaf and dumb: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Deaf and dumb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deaf and dumb, deaf-and-dumb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deaf and dumb: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deaf and dumb: Idioms

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (deaf and dumb)

adjective:  (now offensive) Deaf and not able to speak.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Bum (behind, bottom).

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