Usually means: Enclosed space filled with air.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bubble: Merriam-Webster
  2. bubble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bubble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bubble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bubble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bubble, bubble: Wordnik
  7. bubble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bubble: Wiktionary
  9. bubble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bubble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bubble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bubble: Dictionary.com
  13. bubble: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bubble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bubble (Fluke song), Bubble (G.E.M. song), Bubble (economics), Bubble (film), Bubble (physics), Bubble (programming language), Bubble, The Bubble (Parks and Recreation), The Bubble (UK TV series), The Bubble (game show), The bubble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bubble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bubble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bubble: Rhymezone
  19. bubble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bubble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bubble: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bubble: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bubble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bubble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bubble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bubble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. bubble: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. bubble: Glossary of research economics
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bubble: Moneyterms
  6. Bubble: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  7. bubble: Finance-Glossary.com
  8. Bubble: Inflation Glossary
  9. Bubble: Investopedia
  10. bubble: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bubble: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bubble: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bubble: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Bubble: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Bubble: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bubble (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. bubble, bubble (bath): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. The Bubble: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bubble: Poker Terms
  4. Bubble: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. bubble: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
noun:  A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
noun:  (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
noun:  (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
noun:  (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
noun:  (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed.
noun:  An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
noun:  A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
noun:  The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
noun:  (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
noun:  (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
noun:  (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
noun:  (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people and/or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
noun:  The people who are in this quarantine.
noun:  (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
noun:  (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To cover or spread with bubbles
verb:  (transitive, archaic, rare) To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
verb:  (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
verb:  (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
verb:  (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
verb:  (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
verb:  (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
verb:  (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
noun:  Short for travel bubble. [(neologism) An arrangement between two (or more) countries, states, or other administrative regions, that allows free travel of residents between them while otherwise keeping their borders closed to travellers from outside the bubble.]

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