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lank

[langk] / læŋk /


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His clean-cropped hair has grown out lank and shaggy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022

“A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,//A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl//Make him the quaint great figure that men love,//The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.”

From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2019

On the field, the Patriots trailed with 2:05 to go, when here came that lank, cool-hand Brady, driving them 77 yards in an astonishing 77 seconds, with four javelin passes to Rob Gronkowski.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

He combed his lank, fair hair with his fingers, cleaned his nails with his teeth.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes