Usually means: Flat desert basin, temporary lake.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. playa: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. playa: Merriam-Webster
  3. playa, playa, playa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. playa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. playa: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Playa, playa: Wordnik
  7. playa: Wiktionary
  8. playa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. playa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. playa: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. playa: Dictionary.com
  12. Playa (Ponce), Playa (band), Playa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Playa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. playa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Playa, playa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. playa: FreeDictionary.org
  17. playa: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. playa: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. playa: Legal dictionary
  2. playa: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. playa: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. playa: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. playa: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. playa: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. playa, the playa: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (playa)

noun:  (geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) A dude (an informal term of address or general term to describe a person, typically male).
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang) A player (someone who plays the field, or has prowess in gaining romantic and sexual relationships).

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