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mini-bear

mini-bear is the alternative form of minibear.

Meaning of minibear

Noun

minibear (plural minibears)

  1. (US, slang) A critter, or any animal that is smaller than a bear, that gets into a camper's food, pack, or tent.
    • Almost any place worth camping in comes equipped with a full complement of night-foraging critters. Most are small, like chipmunks, but they are still worthy of the nickname "minibears."2005, Don Jacobson, One-Pan Gourmet Fresh Food On The Trail
    Synonyms:
    microbear

Forms of mini-bear

pluralmini-bears

Questions about mini-bear

What is mini-bear the alternative form of?
Mini-bear is the alternative form of minibear.

Words near mini-bear in the dictionary

  1. mini tower
  2. mini towers
  3. mini-
  4. mini-baccarat
  5. mini-band
  6. mini-bear
  7. mini-bears
  8. mini-boss
  9. mini-bosses
  10. mini-break
  11. mini-breaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mini-bear (page history and authors); minibear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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