Usually means: Small lizard, adhesive toe pads.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. gecko: Merriam-Webster
  2. gecko: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gecko: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gecko: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gecko: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gecko, gecko: Wordnik
  7. gecko: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gecko: Wiktionary
  9. gecko: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gecko: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gecko: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gecko, gecko: Dictionary.com
  13. gecko: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gecko (Overdrive), Gecko (disambiguation), Gecko (layout engine), Gecko (software), Gecko (song), Gecko (theatre company), Gecko: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gecko: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gecko: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gecko: Rhymezone
  18. Gecko: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gecko: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gecko: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gecko: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. gecko: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gecko: CCI Computer
  2. Gecko: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. gecko: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gecko: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the gecko: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See geckoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
verb:  (rare) To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.
noun:  Misspelling of get-go. [(colloquial) The beginning.]

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