Usually means: Surprise military attack by Japan.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word pearl harbor:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Pearl Harbor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Pearl Harbor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Pearl Harbor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pearl Harbor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pearl Harbor: Wiktionary
  7. Pearl Harbor: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Pearl Harbor: Dictionary.com
  9. Pearl Harbor (attack), Pearl Harbor (disambiguation), Pearl Harbor (film), Pearl Harbor (movie), Pearl Harbor (soundtrack), Pearl Harbor, Pearl harbor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pearl harbor: Rhymezone
  11. pearl harbor: Free Dictionary
  12. pearl harbor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Pearl Harbor: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pearl Harbor (cocktail), Pearl Harbor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pearl Harbor (cocktail): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pearl Harbor: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the pearl harbor: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pearl_harbors as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pearl Harbor)

noun:  A placename
noun:  A deep water harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, United States, in the Pacific
noun:  (military) A naval base in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, United States: a US Navy base
noun:  (historical) The attack on Pearl Harbor.
noun:  A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures.
noun:  A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy.
verb:  (often passive voice, slang) To attack by surprise; to subject to a sneak attack.
verb:  (often passive, slang, rare) To take rudely by surprise.
noun:  Alternative form of Pearl Harbour [A harbour in Manapouri, Fiordland, Southland, New Zealand, at the head of the Waiau River.]

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