Meaning

6 senses
  1. A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.

  2. A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.

    a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver

  3. A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.

  4. One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.

  5. A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share.

  6. Newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).

From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).

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Forms

plural: flankers
Singularflanker
Pluralflankers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
fighterA2flanker brandfighter brand
Close in meaning
  • a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver:flanker back

Word family

1 related words
Relatedflank

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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