flange
Meaning
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- 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.
- An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
- (slang) The vulva.
- The collective noun for a group of baboons.
- The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/flænd͡ʒ/
Etymology
From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“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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