Usually means: Explosive material used for blasting.
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  1. dynamite: Merriam-Webster
  2. dynamite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dynamite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dynamite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dynamite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dynamite, dynamite: Wordnik
  7. dynamite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dynamite: Wiktionary
  9. dynamite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dynamite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dynamite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dynamite: Dictionary.com
  13. dynamite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dynamite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Dynamite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dynamite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dynamite: Rhymezone
  19. Dynamite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dynamite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dynamite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dynamite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Dynamite: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. dynamite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. dynamite: Legal dictionary

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  1. dynamite: Encyclopedia

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  2. dynamite: Medical dictionary

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, dynamite: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dynamite: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. dynamite: ESL Slang page
  4. Dynamite, The Dynamite, dynamite: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
noun:  (informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
noun:  (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.
noun:  (slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.
verb:  To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
verb:  (figuratively) To dismantle or destroy.
verb:  (transitive, of brakes) To apply maximum pressure to very quickly.
verb:  (intransitive, of brakes) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.

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