Usually means: Thrusting movement, forward step exercise.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lunge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lunge: Merriam-Webster
  3. lunge, lunge, lunge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lunge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lunge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lunge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lunge, lunge: Wordnik
  8. lunge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lunge: Wiktionary
  10. lunge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lunge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lunge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lunge, lunge: Dictionary.com
  14. lunge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lunge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lunge (exercise), Lunge (fencing), Lunge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lunge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lunge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lunge: Rhymezone
  20. Lunge (f), lunge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lunge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lunge: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lunge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lunge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. lunge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lunge (disambiguation), lunge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. lunge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. lunge: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lunge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Lunge: Sports Definitions

(Note: See lunged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
noun:  A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
noun:  An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
noun:  A fish, the namaycush.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
verb:  (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

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