Flange
noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
- 2 a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object wordnet
- 3 The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
- 4 An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
"[The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line."
- 5 The vulva. slang, vulgar
"I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange. Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her."
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- 6 A group of baboons. collective, humorous, rare
"it's a flange of baboons"
- 7 The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
- 1 To be bent into a flange. intransitive
- 2 To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange. transitive
- 3 To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time. transitive
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More examples"Maybe you could use a flange on it?"
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.