flanks

Noun

flank (plural flanks)

1. The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.
   • Holonym: side

   Synonyms:

   latus

2. A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
3. The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.

   Synonyms:

   wing

4. The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
5. The side of something, in general senses.
   • Cautiously I approached the flank of the cliffs, where they terminated in an abrupt escarpment as though some all powerful hand had broken off a great section of rock and set it upon the surface of the earth.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...

   Synonyms:

   side

6. Either of the two pockets located on the seat of a pair of pants.
   • I took the quarter and hid it in my right flank.

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