Usually means: Comforting object reducing anxiety, stress.
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  1. security blanket: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. security blanket: Merriam-Webster
  3. security blanket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. security blanket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. security blanket: Collins English Dictionary
  6. security blanket: Vocabulary.com
  7. security blanket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. security blanket: Wiktionary
  9. security blanket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. security blanket: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. security blanket: Dictionary.com
  12. Security blanket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. security blanket: Rhymezone
  14. security blanket: FreeDictionary.org
  15. security blanket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. security blanket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. security blanket: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. security blanket: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See security_blankets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (security blanket)

noun:  A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life.
noun:  Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety.

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