Usually means: Traditional Scottish garment, pleated skirt.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word kilt:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. kilt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kilt: Merriam-Webster
  3. kilt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kilt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kilt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kilt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kilt, kilt: Wordnik
  8. kilt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. kilt: Wiktionary
  10. kilt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kilt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kilt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Kilt, kilt: Dictionary.com
  14. kilt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. kilt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. KILT (AM), KILT, Kilt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Kilt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. kilt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. kilt: Rhymezone
  20. Kilt (m), kilt, kilt (de), kilt (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. kilt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. kilt: FreeDictionary.org
  23. kilt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. kilt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kilt: Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kilt (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. kilt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Kilt: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. kilt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To gather up (skirts) around the body.
noun:  A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
noun:  (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
noun:  A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.
noun:  A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
verb:  (obsolete or colloquial, especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.

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