Usually means: Tall, thin, awkwardly gangly build.
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  1. lanky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lanky: Merriam-Webster
  3. lanky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lanky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lanky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lanky, lanky: Wordnik
  7. lanky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lanky, lanky: Wiktionary
  9. lanky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lanky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lanky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lanky, lanky: Dictionary.com
  13. lanky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lanky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lanky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lanky: Rhymezone
  17. lanky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lanky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lanky: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lanky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lanky: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lanky)

▸ 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.

Similar:
gangly, gangling, thin, rangy, lean, tall, lumbering, gawky, leggy, lumpish, more...

Opposite:
stocky, sturdy, muscular, robust, well-built

Types:
gangly, spindly, scrawny, skinny, bony, gawky, lean, more...

Phrases:
tall and lanky, opposite of lanky, more...



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Similar:
gangly, gangling, thin, rangy, lean, tall, lumbering, gawky, leggy, lumpish, more...

Opposite:
stocky, sturdy, muscular, robust, well-built

Types:
gangly, spindly, scrawny, skinny, bony, gawky, lean, more...

Phrases:
tall and lanky, opposite of lanky, more...



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