Usually means: Utensil for eating, stirring, measuring.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spoon: Merriam-Webster
  3. spoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spoon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spoon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spoon, spoon: Wordnik
  8. spoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spoon: Wiktionary
  10. spoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spoon: Dictionary.com
  14. spoon (n.), spoon (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spoon (Can song), Spoon (Dave Matthews Band song), Spoon (album), Spoon (band), Spoon (disambiguation), Spoon (liturgy), Spoon (musical instrument), Spoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spoon: Rhymezone
  20. spoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spoon: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Spoon, spoon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Spoon, Spoon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. spoon: FreeDictionary.org
  26. spoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. spoon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. spoon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spoon (utensil), spoon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Spoon (utensil), spoon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SPOON: Acronym Finder
  3. spoon: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spoon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spoon, spoon, spoon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. spoon: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Spoon: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. spoon: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Spoon: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See spooned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
noun:  An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
noun:  A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
noun:  (golf, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
noun:  (slang) An oar.
noun:  (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
noun:  (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
noun:  (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spoony.
noun:  (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
noun:  (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
verb:  To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
verb:  (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
verb:  (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
verb:  (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
verb:  Alternative form of spoom [(nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.]

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