Usually means: Extra-judicial killing by mob action.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lynch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lynch: Merriam-Webster
  3. Lynch, lynch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lynch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lynch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lynch, lynch: Wordnik
  7. lynch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lynch, lynch: Wiktionary
  9. lynch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lynch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lynch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lynch: Dictionary.com
  13. lynch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lynch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lynch (TV series), Lynch (band), Lynch (surname), Lynch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lynch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lynch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lynch: Rhymezone
  19. lynch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lynch: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lynch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Lynch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Lynch: World Wide Words

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lynch: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. lynch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lynch: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Lynch, lynch (last minute): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland.
noun:  A township and village therein, in Boyd County, Nebraska.
noun:  A tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River, Virginia.
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A hamlet in Berkeley parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6799).
noun:  A hamlet in Overton parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5049).
noun:  A hamlet in Selworthy parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9047; West Lynch and East Lynch also appear on OS maps).
noun:  A minor river at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, which joins the River Lea.
noun:  Alternative form of linch [A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.]

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