Usually means: Plan failed, went unexpectedly wrong.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word pear-shaped:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pear-shaped: Merriam-Webster
  2. pear-shaped: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pear-shaped, pear-shaped: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pear-shaped: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pear-shaped, pear-shaped: Wordnik
  6. pear-shaped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pear-shaped: Wiktionary
  8. pear-shaped: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pear-shaped: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pear-shaped, pear-shaped: Dictionary.com
  11. Pear-shaped: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pear-shaped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pear-shaped: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pear-shaped: Rhymezone
  15. Pear-shaped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pear-shaped: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pear-shaped: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Pear-shaped: The Word Detective
  19. pear-shaped: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Pear-shaped: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pear-shaped: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pear-shaped: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pear-shaped: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Pear-shaped: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
adjective:  Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
adjective:  (slang, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.

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