Usually means: Outer layer of Earth's surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. crust: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crust: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crust: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crust, crust, crust: Wordnik
  7. crust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crust: Wiktionary
  9. crust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crust: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crust: Dictionary.com
  13. crust: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crust(geology), Crust (EP), Crust (album), Crust (baking), Crust (band), Crust (dermatology), Crust (geology), Crust, The Crust (TV series), The Crust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crust: Rhymezone
  19. Crust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Crust: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. crust: Free Dictionary
  23. crust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. crust: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. crust-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crust (geology), crust: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Crust (scab): Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. crust: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRUST: Acronym Finder
  2. crust: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crust: Glossary of Earthquake and Related Terminology
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. crust: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crust, crust, crust: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crust: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crust: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See crustal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
noun:  The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
noun:  An outer layer composed of pastry
noun:  The bread-like base of a pizza.
noun:  (British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Northern US) A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
noun:  (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
noun:  (astronomy, by extension) The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.
noun:  The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
noun:  (British, Australia, informal) A living.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
noun:  (UK, Australia, slang, dated) The head.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with a crust.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a crust.
noun:  (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music) [(uncountable) A subgenre of punk rock, derived from hardcore punk with extreme metal elements, often with pessimistic lyrics about political and social ills.]

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