Usually means: Lags behind others; last to finish.
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  1. straggler: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. straggler: Merriam-Webster
  3. straggler: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. straggler: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straggler: Vocabulary.com
  6. straggler: Wordnik
  7. straggler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. straggler: Wiktionary
  9. straggler: Dictionary.com
  10. straggler: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Straggler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. straggler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. straggler: Rhymezone
  14. straggler: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. straggler: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. straggler: FreeDictionary.org
  17. straggler: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. straggler: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. straggler: Legal dictionary

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  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Straggler: Backgammon

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
noun:  One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
noun:  One who roams without any settled direction.
noun:  A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
noun:  A roving vagabond.
noun:  Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
noun:  Something that stands alone or by itself.

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