Usually means: Tool for measuring fluid levels.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. dipstick: Merriam-Webster
  2. dipstick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dipstick: The Word Spy
  4. dipstick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. dipstick: Collins English Dictionary
  6. dipstick: Vocabulary.com
  7. dipstick: Wordnik
  8. dipstick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. dipstick: Wiktionary
  10. dipstick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. dipstick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. dipstick: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. dipstick: Dictionary.com
  14. dipstick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dipstick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. dipstick: Rhymezone
  17. dipstick: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dipstick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dipstick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. dipstick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dipstick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dipstick: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dipstick: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dipstick: Building pathology glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge.
noun:  (slang) The penis.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A useless person of inferior intellect; a dipshit.
verb:  (transitive) To check (a person) for their understanding of something, as of a lesson, or attitude toward something.
verb:  (mechanical engineering, transitive) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.

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