Usually means: Thick, sweet syrup from sugar.
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  1. treacle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. treacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. treacle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. treacle: Vocabulary.com
  5. Treacle, treacle: Wordnik
  6. treacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. treacle: Wiktionary
  8. treacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. treacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. treacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. treacle: Dictionary.com
  12. treacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Treacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Treacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. treacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. treacle: Rhymezone
  17. Treacle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. treacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Treacle: Britih-American Dictionary
  20. treacle: Free Dictionary
  21. treacle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. treacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. treacle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. treacle: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
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  1. treacle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Treacle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Treacle: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. treacle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. treacle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly UK, Ireland) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
noun:  Cloying sentimental speech.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
noun:  (historical, pharmacology) Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative, by extension) Synonym of cure: an all-powerful curative for some particular affliction.
noun:  (obsolete, figurative, by extension) Synonym of cure-all: a panacea for all human ailments.
verb:  To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.

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