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lank

British pronunciation/lˈæŋk/
American pronunciation/ˈɫæŋk/
1

(of hair) long, thin and straight

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2

tall and thin, with an ungraceful or unattractive appearance

synonyms : spindly
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Examples
1At the beginning, they had been a series of thin, disorganized lines, the electrophysiological equivalent of lank, unkempt hair.
2If I plug in for example ternary there's, there's minus one of lank zero.
3His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot.
4At the top of 4, as the kid moves from Tennessee down to New Orleans, and then out to the West, he moves through the South: He sees blacks in the fields lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton, a shadowed agony in the garden.
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