Usually means: Exercises to improve skills, efficiency.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. drills: Merriam-Webster
  2. drills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drills: Vocabulary.com
  4. Drills, drill's, drills: Wordnik
  5. drills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. drills: Wiktionary
  7. drills: Dictionary.com
  8. drills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Drills: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. drills: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drills: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drills: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. drills: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drills: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drills: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See drill as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (drill)

verb:  (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
verb:  (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
verb:  (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
verb:  (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
verb:  (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
verb:  (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
verb:  (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
verb:  (slang) To shoot; to kill.
noun:  A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
noun:  The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
noun:  An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
noun:  A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
noun:  Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
noun:  (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
noun:  An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
noun:  A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
noun:  A row of seed sown in a furrow.
verb:  (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
noun:  (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
noun:  An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
noun:  A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
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