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ekker

UK/ɛkə(ɹ)/

ekker noun: physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

Noun

ekker (uncountable)

  1. (UK, school slang) Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
    • "Give me ekker," said Beatrice contemptuously. "There's no ekker in biking that I can see."1920, Edmée Elizabeth Monica Delafield, The Heel of Achilles, New York: Macmillan, published 1921, page 63
    • I hated sport, ekker, games, whatever they wanted to call it. And it was a fuck sight harder to get off ekker at Uppingham than it had been at prep school.1997, Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot, page 183
  2. (UK, school slang) Scholastic activity designed to develop or hone academic skills.
  3. (Australia, Ireland, broadly, school slang) Homework.
    • The dog ate my ekker.2015 September 19, hinault, “Chirch membership discussion”, in Boards.ie, retrieved 13 Jun 2017

Forms of ekker

alternative formeccer
alternative formecker

Origin of ekker

From exercise + -er (“Oxford -er”).

Words that rhyme with ekker

Questions about ekker

What does ekker mean?
Ekker means physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
What part of speech is ekker?
Ekker is a noun.
How do you pronounce ekker?
Ekker is pronounced /ɛkə(ɹ)/ (UK).

Words near ekker in the dictionary

  1. ekistics
  2. Ekiti
  3. ekka
  4. Ekka flu
  5. ekkas
  6. ekker
  7. ekkers
  8. ekki
  9. ekklesia
  10. ekklesiae
  11. ekklesiai

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