Usually means: Gear shifting mechanism for bicycles.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. derailleur: Merriam-Webster
  2. derailleur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derailleur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derailleur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derailleur: Wordnik
  6. Derailleur: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. derailleur: Wiktionary
  8. derailleur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. derailleur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. derailleur: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. derailleur: Dictionary.com
  12. Derailleur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. derailleur: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Derailleur: Sports Definitions

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (derailleur)

noun:  The mechanism on a bicycle used to move the chain from one sprocket (gear) to another.
noun:  The entire gearset on a bicycle with such a mechanism.

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