Usually means: Artificial hair worn on head.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wig: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wig: Merriam-Webster
  3. wig, wig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Wig, wig: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wig: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wig, wig: Wordnik
  8. wig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WIG, wig: Wiktionary
  10. wig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wig: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wig: Dictionary.com
  14. wig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wig, WIG, Wig (disambiguation), Wig (film), Wig (hair), Wig (song), Wig, Wig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wig: Rhymezone
  20. Wig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. WIG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Wig, Wig, Wig: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. wig: FreeDictionary.org
  25. Wig, wig: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. wig: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. wig: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wig: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wig: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WIG: Acronym Finder
  3. WIG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. wig: Idioms

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

(Note: See wigged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
noun:  A bigwig
noun:  (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.
verb:  To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, slang) To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
verb:  (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot in the head.
adjective:  (aviation, nautical) Initialism of wing-in-ground.

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