Usually means: Islamic military slave-soldier class.
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  1. Mameluke: Merriam-Webster
  2. Mameluke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Mameluke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Mameluke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mameluke, mameluke: Wordnik
  6. Mameluke, mameluke: Wiktionary
  7. Mameluke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Mameluke: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Mameluke: Dictionary.com
  10. Mameluke: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Mameluke (British horse), Mameluke (USA), Mameluke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Mameluke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. mameluke: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. mameluke: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Mameluke: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Mameluke: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mameluke: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mameluke: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mameluke)

noun:  (US (Italian-American), derogatory, slang) A fool.
noun:  (historical) A member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers, mainly from the Eurasian steppe or the Caucasus; in particular, those who formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria from 1260 until 1516.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (derogatory) One who supports someone or something blindly or slavishly; specifically, one who supports the Roman Catholic Church in this manner.
noun:  (obsolete) A slave (especially one who is a white European) in a Middle Eastern Muslim country.
noun:  (rare) Alternative letter-case form of Mameluke [(historical) A member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers, mainly from the Eurasian steppe or the Caucasus; in particular, those who formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria from 1260 until 1516.]

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