Usually means: Spider-like, long-legged, harmless arachnids.
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  1. daddy longlegs: Merriam-Webster
  2. daddy longlegs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. daddy longlegs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. daddy-longlegs, daddy-longlegs, daddy longlegs: Collins English Dictionary
  5. daddy longlegs: Vocabulary.com
  6. daddy longlegs: Wordnik
  7. daddy longlegs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. daddy-longlegs, daddy longlegs: Wiktionary
  9. daddy-longlegs: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. daddy-longlegs: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Daddy longlegs, daddy-longlegs, daddy longlegs: Dictionary.com
  12. Daddy longlegs (disambiguation), Daddy longlegs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Daddy longlegs: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. daddy longlegs: Rhymezone
  15. Daddy longlegs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. daddy longlegs: FreeDictionary.org
  17. daddy longlegs: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. daddy-longlegs, daddy longlegs: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. daddy longlegs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. daddy longlegs: Encyclopedia

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  2. daddy longlegs: Medical dictionary

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  1. daddy longlegs: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (daddy longlegs)

noun:  (UK, Ireland) The cranefly; any insect of the suborder Tipulomorpha.
noun:  (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) Any (non-spider) arachnid of the order Opiliones, mostly with long thin legs; the harvestman.
noun:  (loosely) The daddy long-legs spider, any spider of the family Pholcidae.

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