Usually means: Engaging in frequent casual relationships.
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  1. promiscuous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. promiscuous: Merriam-Webster
  3. promiscuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. promiscuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. promiscuous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. promiscuous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Promiscuous, promiscuous: Wordnik
  8. promiscuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. promiscuous: Wiktionary
  10. promiscuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. promiscuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. promiscuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. promiscuous: Dictionary.com
  14. promiscuous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. promiscuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Promiscuous (disambiguation), Promiscuous (song), Promiscuous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Promiscuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. promiscuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. promiscuous: Rhymezone
  20. promiscuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. promiscuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. promiscuous: FreeDictionary.org
  23. promiscuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. promiscuous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promiscuous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promiscuous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. promiscuous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. promiscuous: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
adjective:  Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
adjective:  Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
adjective:  (networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

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