Usually means: Utensil for gripping and lifting.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tongs: Merriam-Webster
  3. tongs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tongs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tongs: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tongs: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tong's, Tongs, tongs: Wordnik
  8. tongs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tongs, tongs: Wiktionary
  10. tongs: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tongs: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tongs: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tongs: Dictionary.com
  14. tongs: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tongs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tongs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tongs: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tongs: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tongs: Rhymezone
  20. Tongs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tongs: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TONGS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. tongs: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tongs: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tongs: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. tongs: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tongs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongs: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongs: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tongs: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Tongs: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
noun:  (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.

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