Usually means: White sticks for writing, drawing.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. chalks: Merriam-Webster
  2. chalks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chalks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chalk's, Chalks, chalks: Wordnik
  5. chalks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Chalks, chalks: Wiktionary
  7. chalks: Dictionary.com
  8. Chalks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Chalks: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. chalks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chalks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chalks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. chalks: Medical dictionary

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  1. chalks: Idioms

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  1. chalks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Chalk)

noun:  (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
noun:  (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
noun:  Tailor's chalk.
noun:  (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
noun:  (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
noun:  (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
noun:  (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
verb:  To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
verb:  To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
verb:  To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
verb:  (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
verb:  To manure (land) with chalk.
verb:  To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A suburban village attached to the east side of Gravesend, Gravesham borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6773).
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