Usually means: Main storage compartment in cars.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word trunk:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. trunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trunk: Merriam-Webster
  3. trunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trunk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trunk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trunk, trunk: Wordnik
  8. trunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Trunk, Trunk, Trunk, Trunk, Trunk, Trunk: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. trunk: Wiktionary
  11. trunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. trunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. trunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. trunk: Dictionary.com
  15. trunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. trunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Trunk (The Twilight Zone), The Trunk, Trunk (album), Trunk (anatomy), Trunk (automobile), Trunk (botany), Trunk (car), Trunk (disambiguation), Trunk (luggage), Trunk (motorcycle), Trunk (software), Trunk (telecommunications), Trunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Trunk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. trunk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. trunk: Rhymezone
  21. trunk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. trunk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Trunk (car): American-Britih Dictionary
  24. trunk: FreeDictionary.org
  25. trunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. trunk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. trunk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. trunk: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Trunk: CCI Computer
  3. trunk: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Trunk (telecommunications), trunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. trunk: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Trunk: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Trunk: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. trunk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trunk, trunk, trunk, trunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Trunk, trunk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. trunk: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Trunk: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See trunkful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (heading, biological) Part of a body.
noun:  The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
noun:  The torso; especially, the human torso.
noun:  The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
noun:  (heading) A container.
noun:  A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
noun:  A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
noun:  (Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
noun:  (automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
noun:  (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
noun:  (US, telecommunications) A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
noun:  A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
noun:  A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
noun:  (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
noun:  (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
noun:  (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
noun:  The main line or body of anything.
noun:  (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
noun:  (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
noun:  A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
verb:  (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
verb:  (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  (in the plural) Short for swimming trunks. [A pair of specifically designed shorts worn by men and boys for swimming or bathing.]

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