Usually means: Fictional humanoid, often brutish, warrior.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORC, orc: Merriam-Webster
  2. orc: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orc: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Orc, orc: Wordnik
  5. ORC, orc: Wiktionary
  6. orc: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. orc: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Orc, o.r.c, orc: Dictionary.com
  9. orc: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. ORC, Orc (Blake), Orc (Dungeons & Dragons), Orc (Middle-earth), Orc (Oh Sees album), Orc (Warhammer), Orc (album), Orc (disambiguation), Orc (programming language), Orc: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Orc: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. orc: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Orc: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. orc: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Orc: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. orc: FreeDictionary.org
  17. orc: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orc-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. Orc: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORC: Acronym Finder
  2. ORC: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Orc)

noun:  (archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.
noun:  (fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) A Russian soldier or gangster.
noun:  (by extension, Internet slang, ethnic slur) A Russian person.
noun:  Initialism of Orange River Colony. [(historical) The Orange Free State when annexed by Britain in 1900.]
noun:  Acronym of Otago Regional Council.
noun:  Abbreviation of Oregon City. [A city, the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.]
noun:  (astronomy) Acronym of odd radio circle, a very large unexplained astronomical object.
noun:  Initialism of organized retail crime.
noun:  (biochemistry) Initialism of origin recognition complex.
noun:  (slang, fiction, derogatory) Alternative form of orc (monstrous warrior in fantasy; Russian soldier) [(archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.]

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