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

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  1. spangle: Legal dictionary

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  1. spangle, spangle, spangle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Spangle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
noun:  Any small sparkling object.
noun:  A shiny particle of a mineral.
noun:  (figuratively) A star.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
noun:  A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
noun:  Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (also figuratively) To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
verb:  (figuratively) To adorn or decorate (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
noun:  A surname.

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