Usually means: Hardwood tree, strong, smoky flavor.
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  1. Hickory, hickory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Hickory, hickory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hickory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hickory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hickory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hickory, hickory: Wordnik
  7. hickory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hickory: Wiktionary
  9. hickory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hickory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hickory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hickory, hickory: Dictionary.com
  13. hickory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hickory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hickory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hickory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hickory: Rhymezone
  18. Hickory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hickory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Hickory: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. hickory: Free Dictionary
  22. hickory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hickory: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hickory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. hickory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  26. Hickory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. hickory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hickory, hickory: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hickory: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hickory: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
noun:  (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
noun:  A coarse, durable cotton fabric.
noun:  (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the hickory tree or its wood.

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