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colt

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As a noun, colt means a young male horse. As a verb, it means frisk or frolic like a colt.

Meanings of colt

10 meanings

noun

  1. A young male horse.

  2. A young crane (bird).

  3. figurativelyA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

  4. cricketslangA professional cricketer during his first season.

  5. nauticalA short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

  6. biblicalA young camel or donkey.

  7. A kind of revolver

verb

  1. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

Older and rare meanings (2)

  1. obsoleteTo horse; to get with young.

  2. obsoleteTo befool.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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