Usually means: Small rodent, often kept domestically.
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  1. gerbil: Merriam-Webster
  2. gerbil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gerbil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gerbil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gerbil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gerbil, gerbil: Wordnik
  7. gerbil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gerbil: Wiktionary
  9. gerbil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gerbil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gerbil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gerbil: Dictionary.com
  13. gerbil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gerbil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gerbil (disambiguation), Gerbil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gerbil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gerbil: Rhymezone
  18. Gerbil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gerbil: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gerbil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gerbil: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. gerbil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gerbil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gerbil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. gerbil: Medical dictionary

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  1. gerbil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A member of one of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling those of the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
verb:  (intransitive) To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).

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