Usually means: To bully or intimidate someone.
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  1. hector: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hector, hector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hector, hector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hector: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hector, hector: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hector, hector: Wordnik
  7. hector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hector, hector: Wiktionary
  9. hector: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Hector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Hector: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hector: Dictionary.com
  13. hector: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. HECTOR, HECToR, Hector (API), Hector (Castlevania), Hector (DJ), Hector (Fire Emblem), Hector (French singer), Hector (Marvel Comics), Hector (Pantheon), Hector (cloud), Hector (disambiguation), Hector (given name), Hector (musician), Hector (mythology), Hector (ship), Hector (surname), Hector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hector: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hector: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Hector: Rhymezone
  18. Hector: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hector: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Hector, Hector, Hector: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. hector: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hector: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. hector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Hector: The Word Detective
  25. Hector: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. hector: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hector: Global Glossary
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hector (computer), Hector (mythology), hector: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hector (computer), Hector (mythology), Hector: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HECTOR: Acronym Finder
  3. hector: A Word A Day
  4. hector: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See hectored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.
verb:  (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.
noun:  (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A Trojan hero in Homer's Iliad.
noun:  A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A town in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.
noun:  A settlement in the West Coast region, New Zealand.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Pope County, Arkansas.
noun:  A locality in Clay County, Kentucky.
noun:  A city in Renville County, Minnesota.
noun:  A town in Schuyler County, New York, named after Hector Ely.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Hector Havemeyer.
noun:  A township in Potter County, Pennsylvania.

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