Usually means: Opposite direction from right side.
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  1. left, the Left, the left: Merriam-Webster.com
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  15. ...Left, Left (Austria), Left (Monkey House album), Left (direction), Left (political attitude), Left (politics), Left, The Left (Germany), The Left (Italy), The Left (Luxembourg), The Left (North Macedonia), The Left (Poland), The Left (Slovenia), The Left: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  23. left: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
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  1. Left: Dictionary of Symbolism

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  1. The Left, left: Legal dictionary

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  2. The Left, left: Medical dictionary

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  5. The Left, left: Idioms
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  1. left: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. left, left: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Left: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. The Left, left: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See leave as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
adjective:  (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
adjective:  (politics) Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
adverb:  On the left side.
adverb:  Towards the left side.
adverb:  Towards the political left.
noun:  The left side or direction.
noun:  (politics) The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group.
noun:  The left hand or fist.
noun:  (boxing) A punch delivered with the left fist.
noun:  (surfing) A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
noun:  (politics) The political left wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual left-wing political party.

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