Usually means: Joint connecting foot to leg.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word ankle:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. ankle: Merriam-Webster
  2. ankle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ankle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ankle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ankle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ankle, ankle: Wordnik
  7. ankle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ankle, Ankle, Ankle, Ankle: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. ankle: Wiktionary
  10. ankle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ankle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ankle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ankle: Dictionary.com
  14. ankle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ankle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ankle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ankle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ankle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ankle: Rhymezone
  20. ankle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ankle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ankle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ankle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ankle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. ankle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. ankle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. ankle: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ankle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ankle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ankle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Ankle: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. ankle: Medical dictionary
  9. Ankle: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ankle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ankle, ankle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ankle: Urban Dictionary
  3. Ankle: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See ankles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
verb:  (slang, ambitransitive) To walk.
verb:  (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

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