Usually means: Discarded waste, often in public.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. litter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. litter: Merriam-Webster
  3. litter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. litter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. litter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. litter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Litter, litter: Wordnik
  8. litter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. litter: Wiktionary
  10. litter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. litter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. litter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Litter, litter: Dictionary.com
  14. litter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. litter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Litter (animal), Litter (disambiguation), Litter (rescue basket), Litter (vehicle), Litter (zoology), Litter, The Litter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Litter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. litter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. litter: Rhymezone
  20. litter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. litter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. litter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. litter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. litter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Global Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Litter (vehicle), litter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. litter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. litter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. litter: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Litter: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. litter: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See littered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A bed, especially a pile of straw with blankets &c. used as a bed.
noun:  (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
noun:  (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
noun:  (countable, loosely) The general category of all such similar vehicles, inclusive of sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of straw, grass, &c. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.
noun:  (countable) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
noun:  (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
noun:  (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
noun:  (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
noun:  (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
noun:  (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
verb:  (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
verb:  (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
verb:  (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
verb:  (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
verb:  (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

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