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flack

flack

noun

  1. (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
  2. Alternative spelling of flak.

verb

  1. (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
  2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
  4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

flake

flake

noun

  1. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
  2. (UK) Dogfish.
  3. (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
  4. (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
  5. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  6. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  7. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  8. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
  9. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  10. A flat turn or tier of rope.
  11. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
  12. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  13. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  14. A wire rack for drying fish.

verb

  1. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
  2. (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
  3. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  4. (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
  5. To break or chip off in a flake.
  6. To lay out on a flake for drying.

flaky

flaky

adj

  1. (informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
  2. (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
  3. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

flank

flank

adj

  1. (US, nautical, of speed) Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.

noun

  1. (anatomy) The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
  2. (cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
  3. (military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
  4. (military) The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
  5. (soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.
  6. That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
  7. The outermost strip of a road.
  8. The side of something, in general senses.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
  2. (transitive) To attack the flank(s) of.
  3. (transitive) To defend the flank(s) of.
  4. (transitive) To place to the side(s) of.

flask

flask

noun

  1. (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
  2. (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
  3. A bed in a gun carriage.
  4. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
  5. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

verb

  1. (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

fleak

fleak

noun

  1. A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
  2. A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
  3. A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck
  2. (transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)

fleck

fleck

noun

  1. A flake.
  2. A lock, as of wool.
  3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.

verb

  1. (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.

flick

flick

noun

  1. (dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
  2. (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
  3. (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
  4. (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
  5. A flitch.
  6. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
  7. A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
  8. The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.

verb

  1. To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
  2. To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.

flisk

flisk

noun

  1. (Scotland) A caper; a spring; a whim.
  2. A comb with large teeth.

verb

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To frisk; to skip; to caper.

flock

flock

noun

  1. (Christianity) A religious congregation.
  2. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
  3. A large number of people.
  4. A lock of wool or hair.
  5. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  6. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  7. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.herd/flock
  8. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
  2. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles; especially, to create a dense arrangement of fibers with a desired nap.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
  4. To cover a Christmas tree with artificial snow.
  5. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.

flook

flook

noun

  1. A fluke of an anchor.

flowk

flowk

noun

  1. Archaic form of fluke. (type of worm)

fluke

fluke

noun

  1. (nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
  2. A flounder.
  3. A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
  4. A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
  5. A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
  6. Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
  7. In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
  8. Waste cotton.

verb

  1. (snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
  2. To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.

fluky

fluky

adj

  1. Alternative spelling of flukey

flunk

flunk

verb

  1. (US, dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).
  2. (US, transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
  3. (US, transitive, intransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
  4. To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)

flusk

folks

folks

noun

  1. (California) Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.
  2. (US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
  3. (US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.
  4. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents
  5. plural of folk

folky

folky

adj

  1. (music, informal) Having the character of folk music

foulk

fulke

fulks

kalif

kalif

noun

  1. A rank in the Ku Klux Klan

kloof

kloof

noun

  1. (South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.

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