Usually means: Suggestion to aid problem solving.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word hint:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hint: Merriam-Webster
  2. hint, hint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hint, hint: Wordnik
  7. hint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hint: Wiktionary
  9. hint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hint, hint: Dictionary.com
  13. hint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hint (SQL), Hint (musician), Hint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hint: Rhymezone
  19. hint, hint (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HINT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. hint: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HINT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. hint: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HINT: Acronym Finder
  2. hint: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Hint, hint: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hinted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A clue.
noun:  An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
noun:  A small, barely detectable amount.
noun:  (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
noun:  (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
noun:  (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
verb:  (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
verb:  (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
verb:  (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

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