Usually means: Small, jumping, parasitic insect species.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. flea: Merriam-Webster
  2. flea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flea: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flea, flea: Wordnik
  7. flea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flea: Wiktionary
  9. flea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flea: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flea, flea: Dictionary.com
  13. flea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flea: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flea (Chrono Trigger), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Flea (disambiguation), Flea (musician), Flea, The Flea (fairy tale), The Flea (online poetry journal), The Flea (poem), The Flea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flea: Rhymezone
  19. Flea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flea: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FLEA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Flea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. flea: FreeDictionary.org
  24. flea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. flea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. flea: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. flea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flea: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. flea: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLEA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. flea: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flea: Easton Bible
  2. Flea: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flea: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flea: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See fleas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
noun:  (derogatory) A thing of no significance.
verb:  (transitive) To remove fleas from (an animal).
verb:  Obsolete spelling of flay. [(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).]

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