Usually means: Eight-armed, intelligent marine mollusk.
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  1. octopus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. octopus: Merriam-Webster
  3. Octopus, octopus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. octopus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. octopus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. octopus: Vocabulary.com
  7. Octopus, octopus: Wordnik
  8. octopus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. octopus: Wiktionary
  10. octopus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. octopus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. octopus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Octopus, octopus: Dictionary.com
  14. octopus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. octopus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Octopus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. octopus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. octopus: Rhymezone
  20. octopus, octopus (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. octopus: FreeDictionary.org
  22. octopus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. octopus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. octopus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. octopus: Encyclopedia

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  2. octopus: Medical dictionary

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  2. OCTOPUS: Acronym Finder
  3. octopus: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. octopus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Octopus, octopus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See octopi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
noun:  (countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.
noun:  (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
noun:  (countable) An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
verb:  To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
verb:  To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
verb:  To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
verb:  (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
verb:  To hunt and catch octopuses.
verb:  To behave like an octopus.

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