Usually means: Long, slender, and often limp.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word lank:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lank: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lank, lank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lank: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lank: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lank, Lank, lank: Wordnik
  6. lank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Lank, lank: Wiktionary
  8. lank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lank: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lank, lank: Dictionary.com
  12. lank: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lank: Rhymezone
  17. Lank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lank: Free Dictionary
  20. lank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lank: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LANK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lank, lank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lank: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lanker as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
adjective:  (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
adjective:  (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
adjective:  (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
verb:  (rare, intransitive) To become lank.
noun:  A surname.

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