Usually means: Returns home after wasteful absence.
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  1. prodigal son: Merriam-Webster
  2. prodigal son: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prodigal son: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. prodigal son: Wiktionary
  5. prodigal son: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. prodigal son: Infoplease Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prodigal son)

noun:  Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
noun:  A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).

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