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Flange

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
  2. 2
    a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object wordnet
  3. 3
    The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
  4. 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. 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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  1. 6
    A group of baboons. collective, humorous, rare

    "it's a flange of baboons"

  2. 7
    The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.
Verb
  1. 1
    To be bent into a flange. intransitive
  2. 2
    To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange. transitive
  3. 3
    To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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