Usually means: Enclosed space for infant play.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. playpen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. playpen: Merriam-Webster
  3. playpen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. playpen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. playpen: Collins English Dictionary
  6. playpen: Vocabulary.com
  7. Playpen, playpen: Wordnik
  8. playpen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. playpen: Wiktionary
  10. playpen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. playpen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. playpen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. playpen: Dictionary.com
  14. playpen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Playpen (school), Playpen (website), Playpen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. playpen: Rhymezone
  17. playpen: FreeDictionary.org
  18. playpen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. playpen: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. playpen: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. playpen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) An area or domain in which a person can exercise their activities or endeavors freely.

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