Usually means: Painful, involuntary muscle contraction, discomfort.
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  1. cramp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cramp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cramp, cramp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cramp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cramp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cramp, cramp: Wordnik
  7. cramp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cramp: Wiktionary
  9. cramp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cramp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cramp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cramp: Dictionary.com
  13. cramp (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cramp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cramp (disambiguation), Cramp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cramp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cramp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cramp: Rhymezone
  19. Cramp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cramp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cramp: Free Dictionary
  22. cramp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cramp: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cramp: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. cramp: Legal dictionary

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  1. cramp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  6. cramp: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  8. cramp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRAMP: Acronym Finder
  2. cramp: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CRAMP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cramp, cramp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Cramp, cramp: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
noun:  That which confines or contracts.
noun:  A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
noun:  A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
verb:  (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
verb:  (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
verb:  To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
verb:  (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
verb:  To form on a cramp.
adjective:  (archaic) cramped; narrow
noun:  A surname.

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