Usually means: Purebred horse breed for racing.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. thoroughbred: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thoroughbred: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thoroughbred: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thoroughbred: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thoroughbred: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thoroughbred, thoroughbred: Wordnik
  7. thoroughbred: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Thoroughbred, thoroughbred: Wiktionary
  9. thoroughbred: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thoroughbred: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thoroughbred: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thoroughbred: Dictionary.com
  13. thoroughbred (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thoroughbred: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thoroughbred (Carole King album), Thoroughbred (album), Thoroughbred (disambiguation), Thoroughbred (film), Thoroughbred (series), Thoroughbred (train), Thoroughbred: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thoroughbred: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thoroughbred: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thoroughbred: Rhymezone
  19. Thoroughbred: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thoroughbred: Free Dictionary
  21. thoroughbred: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. thoroughbred: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. thoroughbred: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Thoroughbred: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. thoroughbred, thoroughbred: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Thoroughbred: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. thoroughbred: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thoroughbred: Sports Definitions

(Note: See thoroughbreds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Bred from pure stock.
adjective:  Well-bred and properly educated.
noun:  (loosely) Any purebred horse.
noun:  A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
noun:  A well-bred person.
noun:  A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”) [A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.]

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