Usually means: Small, marine mammal with teeth.
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  1. porpoise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. porpoise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. porpoise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. porpoise: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. porpoise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. porpoise: Wiktionary
  9. porpoise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. porpoise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. porpoise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Porpoise (disambiguation), Porpoise (make of scuba gear), Porpoise (scuba gear), Porpoise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Porpoise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. porpoise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. porpoise: Free Dictionary
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  23. porpoise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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noun:  A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
noun:  (Canada, US, imprecisely) Any small dolphin.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.

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