Usually means: Sudden charge from a defensive position.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sally: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Sally, sally, sally, sally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sally: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sally: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sally: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sally, sally: Wordnik
  7. sally: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sally, sally: Wiktionary
  9. sally: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sally: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sally: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sally: Dictionary.com
  13. Sally, sally: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Sally (Asimov), Sally (Cars), Sally (Flight of the Conchords), Sally (Gogol Bordello song), Sally (Gracie Fields song), Sally (Hardwell song), Sally (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Sally (band), Sally (disambiguation), Sally (musical), Sally (name), Sally (short story), Sally (talk show), Sally: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sally: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sally: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sally: Rhymezone
  18. Sally: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sally: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Sally: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. sally: Free Dictionary
  22. sally: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sally: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sally (disambiguation), sally: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sally (disambiguation), sally: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. sally: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sally, Sally, Sally, Sally: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sally: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See sallied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A willow.
noun:  Any tree that resembles a willow.
noun:  An object made from the wood of a willow.
noun:  A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
noun:  A sudden rushing forth.
noun:  (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
noun:  An excursion or side trip.
noun:  A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
verb:  (intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").
verb:  (intransitive) To venture off the beaten path.
noun:  (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
noun:  A kind of stonefly.
noun:  A wren.
noun:  (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Sarah, also used as a formal given name.
noun:  (British, slang) A nickname for the Salvation Army.
noun:  (slang, drugs, Canada, US) Alternative letter-case form of sally: the crystalline or powdered form of MDA. [A willow.]

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