Usually means: Tool or device for poking.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAD, Gad, gad: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gad, Gad, gad, gad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Gad, Gad, gad, gad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. GAD, gad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gad, gad: Wordnik
  7. GAD, Gad, gad: Wiktionary
  8. gad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gad: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. GAD: Dictionary.com
  12. gad (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. GAD (disambiguation), GAD, Gad (Bible prophet), Gad (deity), Gad (name), Gad (prophet), Gad (son of Jacob), Gad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gad: Rhymezone
  17. Gad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. GAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. Gad: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gad: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gad: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. gad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Gad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. GAD: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GAD: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. GAD (Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase): Diabetes Dictionary
  5. GAD (Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase): Diabetes
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. GAD: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. GAD: Medical dictionary
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. GAD: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. GaD: Acronym Finder
  3. GAD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. gad: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gad: Easton Bible
  2. Gad: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Gad: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

(Note: See gadded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
verb:  (of cattle) To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
noun:  One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
noun:  (especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
noun:  (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
noun:  (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
noun:  (obsolete) A metal bar.
noun:  (dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
noun:  A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
noun:  (biblical) The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
noun:  One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
noun:  A male given name from Hebrew.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder. [An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry which may interfere with daily functioning.]

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