Usually means: Excavate earth using a tool.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dig: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dig: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dig: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dig, dig: Wordnik
  7. dig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DIG, dig, dIG: Wiktionary
  9. dig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dig: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dig, dig, dig: Dictionary.com
  13. dig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Dig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dig: Rhymezone
  19. dig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DIG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. dig: Free Dictionary
  23. dig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dig: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. dig: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dig: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dig: Hacking Lexicon
  2. Dig (song), dig: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIG: Acronym Finder
  2. DIG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. dig: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dig (the grave): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Dig: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. Dig: 1960's Slang
  6. D.I.G, The Dig: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. Dig: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
verb:  (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
verb:  (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
verb:  (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
verb:  To thrust; to poke.
verb:  (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
noun:  An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
noun:  A thrust; a poke.
noun:  (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
noun:  (cricket) An innings.
noun:  A cutting, sarcastic remark.
noun:  The occupation of digging for gold.
noun:  (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
noun:  (UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
noun:  (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
verb:  (dated slang) To understand.
verb:  (dated slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
noun:  (Lancashire, obsolete) A duck.
noun:  (astronomy) dwarf irregular galaxy
noun:  (astronomy) Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy.

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