Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Graceful, sinuous, and sleek.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lank; lean; flaccid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. & U. S. Thin; lank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
furtive ,stealthy orcatlike - adjective UK, dialect, dated
thin ;lank - noun mathematics A
three-dimensional curve — aspiral wound around ahelix .
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Examples
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So, I want to see Scarlett Johansson and Halle Berry in slinky dresses, at a party singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,”
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DREW slinky is supposed to look like barbed wire too i think
Heaps of New Toy Story 3 Images, Including Concept Art and Posters | /Film 2010
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So, I want to see Scarlett Johansson and Halle Berry in slinky dresses, at a party singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,” and a late night motorcade back to the White House, with Bill Clinton giving a thumbs up.
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There’s plenty of gore and swanky babes (Sheryl Lee filling the Lucy role) in slinky outfits, but the languorous plot is a bore.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2001
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Kurt Wilberding for the Wall Street Journal At Alice & Olivia's presentation, models wore minimalist dresses that recalled slinky 1970s dressing.
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The so-called slinky loop system will supplement a boiler for the dining hall.
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Give me your address and I will send you a 'slinky' to illustrate this point. by
It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009
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This image here is what I was trying to convey to my son regarding cosmic energy by using the "slinky" model / ouroboros reference.
Fibonacci and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Thou art that: I got to thinking about "involution-evolution" and recalled my conversation with my son about my "slinky" idea and decided to do an image search on magnetic polarity.
Fibonacci and Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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I had a mental block on the word "slinky" for the past 24-hours.
treeseed commented on the word slinky
A Slinky, or "Lazy-Spring," is a coil-shaped toy invented by mechanical engineer Richard James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Slinkies come in various sizes. The shape is a simple helix, or coil design, of a ribbon of material, originally metal. The Slinky can "walk" down stairs as the coils stretch and reform as gravity moves them down each step.
_Wikipedia
January 28, 2008
yarb commented on the word slinky
Can you guess me? A garment; not knitted, though, nor ornate,
not slinky skin-tight silk nor stretched-transparent tulle...
- Peter Reading, ?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
June 29, 2008