Whisker | Mean of whisker in English Dictionary

/ˈwɪskɚ/

• Noun
• a hair that grows on a man's face
1. He's decided to shave off his whiskers.
• any one of the long, stiff hairs that grow near the mouth of some animals
1. a cat's whiskers
• a very small distance or amount
1. He won/lost the race by a whisker.
2. She came within a whisker of getting fired. [=she came very close to getting fired]