Usually means: Bird known for clumsy behavior.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. booby: Merriam-Webster
  2. booby, booby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. booby, booby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. booby: Collins English Dictionary
  5. booby: Vocabulary.com
  6. Booby, booby: Wordnik
  7. booby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. booby: Wiktionary
  9. booby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. booby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. booby: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Booby, booby: Dictionary.com
  13. booby: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. booby: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Booby (disambiguation), Booby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Booby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. booby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. booby: Rhymezone
  19. Booby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. booby: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Booby, Booby: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. booby: FreeDictionary.org
  23. booby: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. booby: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. booby: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Booby (bird), booby: Encyclopedia

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  1. booby: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A stupid person.
noun:  Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
noun:  In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
verb:  (rare, intransitive) To behave stupidly; to act like a booby.
verb:  (transitive) To install a booby trap on or at (something); to attack (someone) with a booby trap.
adjective:  (slang, obsolete) Stupid; unintelligent.
noun:  (colloquial or childish) A breast.
adjective:  (informal, of clothing or a person) Displaying breasts prominently.
adjective:  (informal) Having large breasts.

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