Usually means: Combining incongruent metaphors into one.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word mixed metaphor:

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  1. mixed metaphor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mixed metaphor: Merriam-Webster
  3. mixed metaphor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mixed metaphor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mixed metaphor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mixed metaphor: Vocabulary.com
  7. mixed metaphor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mixed metaphor: Wiktionary
  9. mixed metaphor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mixed metaphor: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mixed metaphor: Dictionary.com
  12. Mixed metaphor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. mixed metaphor: Rhymezone
  14. mixed metaphor: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. mixed metaphor: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mixed metaphor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mixed metaphor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MIXED METAPHOR: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mixed metaphor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mixed metaphor: Encyclopedia

(Note: See mixed_metaphors as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mixed metaphor)

noun:  (linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.

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