Usually means: Military decoration for wounded soldiers.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word purple heart:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purple Heart: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Purple Heart, purple heart: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Purple Heart: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purple heart: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Purple Heart, purple heart: Vocabulary.com
  6. purple-heart: Wordnik
  7. Purple Heart, Purple heart: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Purple Heart, purple heart: Wiktionary
  9. Purple Heart: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Purple Heart: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. purple heart: Dictionary.com
  12. Purple Heart (disambiguation), Purple Heart, Purple heart, The Purple Heart: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Purple heart: Rhymezone
  14. purple heart: Free Dictionary
  15. purple heart: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Purple Heart: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purple heart: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purple Heart: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purple heart: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Purple Heart)

noun:  The drug phenobarbitone when taken recreationally.
noun:  (slang, historical) A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s.
noun:  (chiefly US, military) A US military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917.

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