Pronunciations (3)
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/θɪk/
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/θɘk/
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θɘk
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Adjective
Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
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The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
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I want some planks that are two inches thick.
Heavy in build; thickset.
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He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.
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JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.
Densely crowded or packed.
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My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
We walked through thick undergrowth.
Having a viscous consistency.
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My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
Abounding in number.
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The room was thick with reporters.
Seashells lay thick on the beach.
Impenetrable to sight.
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We drove through thick fog.
Prominent, strong. Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
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He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
Prominent, strong. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
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We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
Stupid.
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He was as thick as two short planks.
Friendly or intimate.
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They were as thick as thieves.
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Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since
Deep, intense, or profound.
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Thick darkness.
Detailed and expansive; substantive.
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Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person.
A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice).
Nor is his defence of market capitalism likely to persuade all his progressive friends, because no matter how much fairness is achieved through an application of the difference principle, they are reluctant to accept Tomasi’s defence of private property rights or a thick concept of economic freedom.
Troublesome; unreasonable.
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“Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing. Pretty thick, isn’t it?”
"Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s."
Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
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A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya
Adverb
In a thick manner.
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Snow lay thick on the ground.
Frequently or numerously.
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The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
Noun
The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
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It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
A thicket.
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gloomy thicks
Through the thicke they heard one rudely rush.
A stupid person; a fool.
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If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.
Verb
To thicken.
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A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen, Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng
The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Adjective
not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
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an inch thick
a thick board
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a thick sandwich
spread a thick layer of butter
thick coating of dust
thick warm blankets
having component parts closely crowded together
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a compact shopping center
a dense population
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thick crowds
a thick forest
thick hair
relatively dense in consistency
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thick cream
thick soup
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thick smoke
thick fog
spoken as if with a thick tongue
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the thick speech of a drunkard
his words were slurred
having a short and solid form or stature
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a wrestler of compact build
he was tall and heavyset
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stocky legs
a thickset young man
hard to pass through because of dense growth
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dense vegetation
thick woods
(of darkness) densely dark
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thick night
thick darkness
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a face in deep shadow
deep night
(used informally) associated on close terms
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the bartender was chummy with the regular customers
the two were thick as thieves for months
(used informally) stupid
abounding; having a lot of
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the top was thick with dust
Noun
the location of something surrounded by other things
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in the midst of the crowd
Adverb
with a thick consistency
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the blood was flowing thick
in quick succession
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misfortunes come fast and thick