Usually means: Children born to unmarried parents.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bastards, bastards: Merriam-Webster
  2. bastards: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bastards: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bastard's, Bastards, bastard's, bastards: Wordnik
  5. bastards: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Bastards, bastards: Wiktionary
  7. bastards: Dictionary.com
  8. bastards: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Bastards (Saigon Kick album), Bastards, The Bastards (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bastards: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. bastards: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bastards: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. bastards: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bastards: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bastards: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bastards: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bastard as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bastard)

noun:  (dated) A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
noun:  A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
noun:  (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
noun:  (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
noun:  (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
noun:  (informal) A child who does not know their father.
noun:  (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
noun:  A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
noun:  A bastard file.
noun:  A kind of sweet wine.
noun:  A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
noun:  An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
noun:  A large mould for straining sugar.
noun:  A writing paper of a particular size.
noun:  (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
adjective:  Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
adjective:  Of or like a bastard (bad person).
adjective:  Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
adjective:  Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
adjective:  Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
adjective:  (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
adjective:  Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
adjective:  (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
adjective:  (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
verb:  (obsolete) To bastardize.
noun:  A surname from Old French.
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