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erks

erks is the plural of erk.

Meaning of erk

Noun

erk (plural erks)

  1. (UK, slang) A member of the groundcrew in the RAF.
    • But I wasn’t accepted for flying duty—eyesight failed me. Neither was Frank, which, I’m ashamed to say, I found a relief. We were both channelled as aircrafthands, known to everyone as erks.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 9, in Small Island, London: Review, page 345

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Noun capitalized: ERKs

ERKs

  1. (plural) plural of ERK

Questions about erks

What is erks the plural of?
Erks is the plural of erk.
What part of speech is erks?
Erks is a noun.

Words near erks in the dictionary

  1. Erker
  2. Erkers
  3. erkier
  4. erkiest
  5. Erkrath
  6. erks
  7. erky
  8. erl-king
  9. erl-kings
  10. Erlandson
  11. Erlandsons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erks (page history and authors); ERKs (page history and authors); erk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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