Usually means: Frozen raindrops, partially melted ice.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sleet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sleet: Merriam-Webster
  3. sleet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sleet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sleet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sleet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sleet, sleet: Wordnik
  8. sleet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sleet: Wiktionary
  10. sleet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sleet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sleet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sleet: Dictionary.com
  14. sleet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sleet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sleet (disambiguation), Sleet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sleet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sleet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sleet: Rhymezone
  20. sleet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sleet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sleet: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sleet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sleet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleet: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sleet: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. Sleet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sleeted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly US) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland, Northeastern US) Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
noun:  (rare) A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
noun:  (firearms) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
verb:  (impersonal, of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

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