flange

/ˈfleə̯nd͡ʒ/UK/ˈflænd͡ʒ/

flange noun: an external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

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Noun

flange (plural flanges)

An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
(roleplaying games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.1998, Mr MI Pennington, “Can the Players be Trusted?”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet)
- 'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'2007, "balor", Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20071014193135/http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx
(slang, vulgar) The vulva.
- I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same...2001, tedfat, “Flange!!!!”, in alt.society.nottingham (Usenet)
- 'God, she's got a tight flange!' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.2003, Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets
(collective, humorous, rare) A group of baboons.
- it's a flange of baboons1980s (first use), Not the Nine O'clock News, Rowan Atkinson (actor)
- I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.2006, Rick Crosier, Getting Away with Murder
Synonyms:

congress
The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

Verb

flange (third-person singular simple present flanges, present participle flanging, simple past and past participle flanged)

(intransitive) To be bent into a flange.
(transitive) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
(transitive, sound engineering) To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

flange meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

flange in Tamil

விளிம்புப் பட்டை, சடை, செவி, விளிம்புப்பட்டை, விளிம்புப் பிணை, பற்குழித் விளிம்புத் துருத்தம்

Examples of flange in a sentence

I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange.2001, tedfat, “Flange!!!!”, in alt.society.nottingham (Usenet):
two of the larger male members of the flange of baboons were jumping up and down as if in the latter stages of some mating ritual2007, Phil Ball, The Hapless Teacher's Handbook, Ebury Publishing, page 219:
I just watched a crazy video where a solo leopard attacked a flange of baboons.2023 August 18, thebligg, “ow many baboons does it take to kill a leopard?”, in reddit, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2026:

All 17 example sentences with flange

Synonyms of flange

congress

Forms of flange

Noun
plural	flanges
Verb
third-person singular present	flanges
present participle	flanging
past participle	flanged
past	flanged

Plural of flange: flanges

Origin of flange

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanku (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

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Questions about flange

What does flange mean?: Flange means an external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
What is flange in Tamil?: Flange in Tamil is விளிம்புப் பட்டை, சடை, செவி. See Flange meaning in Tamil.
How do you use flange in a sentence?: I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange.
What part of speech is flange?: Flange can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce flange?: Flange is pronounced /ˈflænd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of flange?: The plural of flange is flanges.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flange (page history and authors); flange (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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