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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
critter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Frogs and toads are tough little critters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite its speed, Teraflops is more of a mainstream critter.
▪ I sometimes come down here to feed those critters on my way home.
▪ In other words, humans are sometimes spookier than the critters.
▪ It is these tiny critters that help keep Maine green, by keeping people out.
▪ John feels happy for the little critter.
▪ Now the pampered critters are off to the slaughterhouse.
▪ The young critters were trotted out to put on a show for the kids.
▪ This is unfortunate because wasps are nasty little critters whose sole aim in life is to ruin picnics and barbecues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
critter

critter \crit"ter\ (kr[i^]t"t[~e]r), n. [from creature.] [Also spelled crittur.]

  1. Any animal; as, lots of critters come out only at night.

  2. Specifically: A domestic animal or a non-predatory wild animal; -- contrasted with varmint, also dialectal. [U. S., western dialect]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
critter

1815, dialectal or humorous pronunciation of creature.

Wiktionary
critter

n. (label en usually affectionate) A creature, an animal.

WordNet
critter

n. a regional term for creature (especially domestic animals)

Wikipedia
Critter

Critter or critters may refer to:

Critter (chess)

Critter is a cross-platform UCI chess engine by Slovakian programmer Richard Vida which is free for non-commercial use. The engine has achieved top five on most official chess engine Elo rating lists.

Usage examples of "critter".

And moreover, all of us can feel which droplets and splinters of the birdcage critter are Charlie and Leslie.

Another extinct amphibian and another wrong guess is next: Dicynodon, portrayed as a massive critter with a turtle-like shell and two big jutting fangs.

If the critters knew how to cipher, they would soon find out that a sum stated that way always eends in a naught.

It is an elusive critter called the Higgs field that gives objects mass.

When I think of the javelina meat I et and the bare-footed bandits I had to associate with whilst living in Old Mexico to avoid having to kill that wuthless critter, his present attitude embitters me.

The Reaper wandered through this virtual universe and harvested old 80-byte critters and nonviable mutants.

I got up I saw two or three black--looking critters, not unlike the devil, skurrying up the trees, with long tails behind them.

Besides that, everybody knowed how that high ground, in storm, drew every critter on these rivers, it was one of the worst places for rattlers, let alone cottonmouths, in all the Islands.

Halls, Hamiltons, and De Rouses, and such critters, what can they know of us?

Best of all, since the snakes preferred twilight time for supper, neither the critters they hunted nor the diamondbacks themselves had any call to be scampering about in the open with two full-grown ponies crunching sand their way.

High Apacheria got too cold for a sand-loving sidewinder on many a night, and the critters only bred where they could make it through the whole year.

There was something in the way grazing critters digested vegetables that made the stuff smell like malted grain.

Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.

Spanish-speaking folks bred critters as cleverly as French-speaking folks pruned grape vines for wine.

Here we are all just ready to drop down, and the critters all in a reek of sweat.