" flank "

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1: The extreme left or right of a military formation. The following is an extract:

  * e.g.,  ... An out-flanking manoeuvre. 

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2: Flank attack (Mil.), an attack upon the side of an army or body of troops, distinguished from one upon its front or rear.

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3: Flank company (Mil.), a certain number of troops drawn up on the right or left of a battalion; usually grenadiers, light infantry, or riflemen.

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4: Flank defense (Fort.), protection of a work against undue exposure to an enemy's direct fire, by means of the fire from other works, sweeping the ground in its front.

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5: Flank en potence (Mil.), any part of the right or left wing formed at a projecting angle with the line.

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6: Flank files, the first men on the right, and the last on the left, of a company, battalion, etc.

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7: Flank march, a march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order to turn it or to attack him on the flank.

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8: Flank movement, a change of march by an army, or portion of one, in order to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a new position.

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9: Flanks of a frontier, salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion.

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10: Flank patrol, detachments acting independently of the column of an army, but patrolling along its flanks, to secure it against surprise and to observe the movements of the enemy.

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1: A sexual gropage of the calf.

  * e.g.,  ... Ian walked up behind Jacob and flanked him suddenly. Jacob felt violated later on and showered for three hours straight. 

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1: To pwn someone, either figuratively or literally, by bludgeoning them upside the head with your gigantic cock.

  * e.g.,  ... Buzzed Bunny says to flank the fuckton of ninjas that show up when you're fucking your girlfriend in the ass. 

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1: A prank move pulled by two conspirators in a men's restroom that does not have barriers between the urinals. Ignoring proper urinal etiquette, the two prankers come up on either side of a lone pisser and angle 45 degrees so as to piss into the same urinal as the man being pranked. Usually complemented with a conversation across the middle man.

  * e.g.,  ... Hey, this is a perfect time to flank him, let's go. 

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1: The word flank is used as a substitute to most key words in a sentence, especially swear words

  * e.g.,  ... What the 'flank'?  

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1: The worst band ever. Members Brad, Quinn, and Fernado

  * e.g.,  ... Quinn and Brad were giving Fernado a Rusty Trombone 

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1: A marijuana cigarette.

  * e.g.,  ... Diz smoked a fat flank. 

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1: ugly, unpleasant apperance

  * e.g.,  ... Damn that girl is flank. 

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1: anti-aircraft artillary

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1: Can be used in Jersey (Channel Islands) to replace "wilt" - especially if you live in St Mary.

  * e.g.,  ... My flowers are beginning to flank.