Usually means: Demand payment of a debt.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dun, dun, dun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dun, dun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dun: Vocabulary.com
  6. D'UN, D'un, Dun, d'un, dun, dun: Wordnik
  7. dun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dun, dun: Wiktionary
  9. dun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dun: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dun, dun: Dictionary.com
  13. dun (adj.), dun (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. DUN, Dun (color), Dun (disambiguation), Dun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dun: Rhymezone
  18. Dun, dun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. DUN, dun: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Dun: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dun: Free Dictionary
  23. dun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Dun: The Word Detective
  25. dun: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dun: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. DUN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. AD&D Dwarven Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. dun: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DUN (Dial-Up Networking): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. dun: Encyclopedia

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  2. dun: Medical dictionary

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  3. dun: A Word A Day
  4. DUN: Three Letter Words with definitions
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  6. dun: Idioms
  7. dun: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dun: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. dun, the dun: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A brownish grey colour.
adjective:  Of a brownish grey colour.
noun:  (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
noun:  An urgent request or demand of payment.
verb:  (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
verb:  (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
noun:  (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
noun:  (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
noun:  An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
noun:  (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
noun:  A mound or small hill.
noun:  A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
noun:  A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
noun:  An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
noun:  A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
noun:  A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
noun:  A surname
noun:  a state legislative assembly
noun:  a state legislative assembly seat
verb:  (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do [(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.]
verb:  (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not. [do not (negative auxiliary)]
noun:  Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”) [(India, chiefly in the plural) Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas, and between the rise of that mountain mass and the low tertiary ranges known as the sub-Himalayan or Sivalik Hills, or rather between the interior and exterior of these ranges.]

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