Usually means: Clothing accessory worn around neck.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word scarf:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scarf: Merriam-Webster
  3. scarf, scarf, scarf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scarf, scarf, scarf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scarf: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scarf: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scarf, scarf: Wordnik
  8. scarf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scarf: Wiktionary
  10. scarf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scarf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scarf: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scarf: Dictionary.com
  14. scarf (1), scarf (2), scarf (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scarf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scarf (disambiguation), Scarf, The Scarf (film), The Scarf (opera): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scarf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scarf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scarf: Rhymezone
  20. scarf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scarf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scarf: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scarf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Scarf: The Word Detective
  25. scarf: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scarf: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scarf: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. scarf (n.): Cats
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SCARF: Acronym Finder
  5. scarf: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. scarf, scarf: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Scarf: 1960's Slang
  4. scarf: ESL Slang page
  5. scarf: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See scarfed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
noun:  A headscarf.
noun:  (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
verb:  To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
verb:  To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
noun:  A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
noun:  A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
noun:  A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
verb:  To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
verb:  To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
verb:  To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
verb:  (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
noun:  (Scotland) A cormorant.
noun:  Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”). [A skin disease.]

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