Usually means: Phishing attacks targeting high-level executives.
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  1. whaling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whaling: Merriam-Webster
  3. whaling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whaling: The Word Spy
  5. whaling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. whaling: Collins English Dictionary
  7. whaling: Vocabulary.com
  8. Whaling, whaling: Wordnik
  9. whaling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. whaling: Wiktionary
  11. whaling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. whaling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. whaling: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. whaling: Dictionary.com
  15. Whaling (DD Smash song), Whaling (disambiguation), Whaling (song), Whaling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whaling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whaling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Whaling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. WHALING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. whaling: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whaling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Whaling: Legal dictionary

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  1. whaling: Encyclopedia

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  1. whaling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CIA World Factbook (No longer online)
  2. whaling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whaling, whaling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See whale as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The practice of hunting whales.
noun:  The practice of spotting whales.
noun:  (informal) A beating.
noun:  (computing) A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.

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