Usually means: Smallest member in a litter.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word runt:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. runt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. runt: Merriam-Webster
  3. runt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. runt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. runt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. runt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Runt, runt: Wordnik
  8. runt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. runt: Wiktionary
  10. runt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. runt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. runt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Runt, runt: Dictionary.com
  14. runt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Runt (album), Runt (band), Runt (disambiguation), Runt (film), Runt (novel), Runt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Runt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. runt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. runt: Rhymezone
  19. Runt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. runt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. runt: FreeDictionary.org
  22. runt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. runt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Runt (litter), runt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Runt (litter), runt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUNT: Acronym Finder
  2. runt: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. runt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. runt: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. runt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. runt: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See runtiness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The smallest animal of a litter.
noun:  (by extension) The smallest child in the family.
noun:  Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
noun:  (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
noun:  (networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
noun:  (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
noun:  A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
noun:  (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
noun:  A bow.

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