Usually means: Tall, thin, awkwardly gangly build.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word lanky:

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  1. lanky: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lanky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lanky: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lanky: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lanky, lanky: Wordnik
  6. lanky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Lanky, lanky: Wiktionary
  8. lanky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lanky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lanky: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lanky, lanky: Dictionary.com
  12. lanky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Lanky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lanky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lanky: Rhymezone
  16. lanky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lanky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. lanky: Free Dictionary
  19. lanky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lanky: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. lanky: Encyclopedia

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  1. lanky: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lanky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lanky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. lanky: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  (informal, derogatory) Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
noun:  The dialect of English spoken in Lancashire.
noun:  (colloquial, historical) The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.
noun:  Someone from Lancashire.
adjective:  From Lancashire or having distinctive Lancashire traits.

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