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lackstocks

lackstocks is the plural of lackstock.

Meaning of lackstock

Noun

lackstock (plural lackstocks)

  1. (obsolete) A person who has no money in stocks and shares.
    • Only let me say, that I should be as glad as you could be to find myself in possession of a good independent fortune: and that we poor lacklands and lackstocks who have to earn our livelihood, must endeavour to make the best of it.1802 November 6, Robert Southey, Letter to To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq.; republished in Warter, John Wood, editor, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey, volume 3, London: Longman, Brown...

Questions about lackstocks

What is lackstocks the plural of?
Lackstocks is the plural of lackstock.

Words near lackstocks in the dictionary

  1. Lacko
  2. Lackos
  3. Lackrana
  4. lacks
  5. lackstock
  6. lackstocks
  7. lackt
  8. lackwit
  9. lackwits
  10. lackwitted
  11. lackwittedness

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