Usually means: Thick layer of fat, marine mammals.
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  1. blubber: Merriam-Webster
  2. blubber, blubber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blubber, blubber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blubber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blubber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blubber, blubber: Wordnik
  7. blubber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blubber: Wiktionary
  9. blubber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blubber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blubber: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blubber: Dictionary.com
  13. blubber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blubber: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blubber (novel), Blubber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blubber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blubber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blubber: Rhymezone
  19. Blubber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blubber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Blubber: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. blubber: FreeDictionary.org
  23. blubber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. blubber: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. blubber: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. blubber: Encyclopedia

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

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verb:  (transitive)
verb:  Often followed by out: to cry out (words) while sobbing.
verb:  (archaic, also figurative) To wet (one's eyes or face) by crying; to beweep; also, to cause (one's face) to disfigure or swell through crying.
verb:  (obsolete) Often followed by forth: to let (one's tears) flow freely.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (chiefly derogatory) To cry or weep freely and noisily; to sob.
verb:  (obsolete) To bubble or bubble up; also, to make a bubbling sound like water boiling.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found immediately beneath the epidermis of whales and other cetaceans (infraorder Cetacea).
noun:  (uncountable) A fatty layer of adipose tissue found in other animals which keeps them warm, especially Arctic animals such as sea lions and Antarctic animals such as penguins.
noun:  (uncountable, informal, chiefly derogatory and offensive) A person's fat tissue, usually when regarded as excessive and unsightly.
noun:  (countable, by extension, archaic) A jellyfish (subphylum Medusozoa).
noun:  (countable, chiefly derogatory) An act of crying or weeping freely and noisily.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A bubble.
noun:  One who blubs (“cries or weeps freely and noisily”); a blubberer.
adjective:  (archaic) Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.

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