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What (who) is dyke - definition
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Dike; Dikes; Dyke (disambiguation)
Dyke
·noun ·see Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
dyke
dyke1
(also dike)
¦ noun
1. an embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
an earthwork serving as a boundary or defence: Offa's Dyke.
2. a ditch or watercourse.
3. Geology an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata. Compare with sill.
¦ verb [often as adjective dyked] provide (land) with a dyke to prevent flooding.
Origin
ME: from ON dik, related to ditch.
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dyke2
(also dike)
¦ noun informal a lesbian.
Derivatives
dykey adjective (dykier, dykiest).
Origin
1940s (earlier as bulldyke): of unknown origin.
dyke
(dykes)
Note: The spelling 'dike' is also used, especially for meaning 1.
1.
A dyke is a thick wall that is built to stop water flooding onto very low-lying land from a river or from the sea.
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2.
A dyke is a lesbian. (INFORMAL, OFFENSIVE)
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Examples of use of dyke
1. How the Dyke plan plays out 1 Greg Dyke becomes ITV chief executive.
2. The storm caused heavy damage to the provincial sea dyke system, breaking dyke segments in Hai Hau, Nghia Hung and Giao Thuy districts.
3. Former BBC boss Greg Dyke becomes Bob‘s chairman.
4. Schlein even compares the quarter to the boy with his finger in the dyke.
5. Mr Allen hasn‘t quite closed the gate on Greg Dyke and his barbarians yet.