Usually means: Joints connecting arms to forearms.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word elbows:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbows: Merriam-Webster
  2. elbows: Collins English Dictionary
  3. elbows: Vocabulary.com
  4. Elbow's, Elbows, elbow's, elbows: Wordnik
  5. elbows: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. elbows: Wiktionary
  7. elbows: Dictionary.com
  8. elbows: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Elbows: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Elbows: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. elbows: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbows: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbows: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbows: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. elbows: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. elbows: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elbows: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. elbows: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See elbow as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elbow)

noun:  (anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.
noun:  (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
noun:  (US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
noun:  (basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
noun:  A hit with the elbow.
noun:  (knots) Two nearby crossings of a rope.
verb:  (transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
verb:  To strike with the elbow.
verb:  To nudge, jostle or push.
verb:  (informal, with "out" or "aside") To force (someone) to quit or lose their job so that someone else can be hired.
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