Usually means: Device that attracts and grounds lightning.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word lightning rod:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightning rod: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lightning rod: Merriam-Webster
  3. lightning rod: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lightning rod: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lightning rod: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lightning rod: Vocabulary.com
  7. lightning-rod, lightning rod: Wordnik
  8. lightning rod: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lightning rod: Wiktionary
  10. lightning rod: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lightning rod: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lightning rod: Dictionary.com
  13. Lightning Rod (Roller Coaster), Lightning Rod (roller coaster), Lightning rod: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. lightning rod: Rhymezone
  15. Lightning Rod: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. lightning rod: FreeDictionary.org
  17. lightning rod: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. lightning rod: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lightning rod: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightning rod: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lightning rod: Urban Dictionary

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

(Note: See lightning_rods as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lightning rod)

noun:  A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.
noun:  (figuratively) A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.

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