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Definition of runt noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

runt

noun

NAmE//rʌnt//

1the smallest, weakest animal of the young that are born from the same mother at the same time the runt of the litter

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2(informal) (disapproving) a rude way of referring to a small, weak, or unimportant person

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