Usually means: Whiskey made primarily from corn.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bourbon, bourbon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Bourbon, Bourbon, bourbon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Bourbon, Bourbon, bourbon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bourbon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bourbon, bourbon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bourbon, bourbon: Wordnik
  7. bourbon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bourbon, bourbon: Wiktionary
  9. bourbon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Bourbon, bourbon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Bourbon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bourbon, bourbon: Dictionary.com
  13. bourbon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bourbon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bourbon (disambiguation), Bourbon (group), Bourbon (horse), Bourbon (whiskey), Bourbon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bourbon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bourbon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bourbon: Rhymezone
  19. Bourbon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Bourbon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. bourbon: Free Dictionary
  22. bourbon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Bourbon: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bourbon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bourbon: A Word A Day
  2. SPIRITS Terminology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bourbon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Bourbon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels. Made in the United States.
noun:  A serving of bourbon whiskey.
noun:  A Bourbon biscuit.
noun:  A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
noun:  A surname from French.
noun:  (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.
noun:  (historical, Southern US, especially Mississippi) A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
noun:  A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
noun:  Bourbon Street, a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
noun:  (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
noun:  A town in Indiana.
noun:  A city in Missouri.

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