Usually means: Wandering without a fixed home.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stray: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stray: Merriam-Webster
  3. stray: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stray: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stray: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stray: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stray, stray: Wordnik
  8. stray: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stray: Wiktionary
  10. stray: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stray: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stray: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stray: Dictionary.com
  14. stray (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stray: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stray (UK band), Stray (album), Stray (band), Stray (novel), Stray, The Stray (Harrogate), The Stray (Westworld), The Stray (film), The Stray: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stray: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stray: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stray: Rhymezone
  20. stray: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stray: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stray: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stray: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stray: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Stray: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. stray: Legal dictionary
  4. Stray: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stray: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stray: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stray, stray: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Stray: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See strayed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
noun:  A person who is lost, either literally or figuratively.
noun:  An act of wandering off or going astray.
noun:  (historical) An area of common land for use by domestic animals.
noun:  (British, law, archaic) An article of movable property, of which the owner is not known (see waif).
noun:  (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
noun:  (slang) A casual or offhand insult.
noun:  (BDSM) A submissive that has not committed to submit to any particular dominant.
verb:  (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
verb:  (intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
verb:  (intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to stray; lead astray.
adjective:  Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
adjective:  In the wrong place; misplaced.
noun:  Ellipsis of stray bullet. [A bullet that, after being fired from a gun, hits an unintended target.]

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