Usually means: Shoe with canvas upper, rubber sole.
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  1. plimsoll: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plimsoll: Merriam-Webster
  3. Plimsoll, plimsoll: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plimsoll: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plimsoll: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Plimsoll, plimsoll: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plimsoll: Wordnik
  8. plimsoll: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Plimsoll, plimsoll: Wiktionary
  10. plimsoll: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. plimsoll: Dictionary.com
  12. Plimsoll: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Plimsoll (surname), Plimsoll: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. plimsoll: Rhymezone
  15. plimsoll: FreeDictionary.org
  16. plimsoll: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. plimsoll: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. plimsoll: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plimsoll: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plimsoll: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See plimsolls as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (UK, Ireland) A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
noun:  The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
noun:  A surname.

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