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Thick

adjective

(compar. thicker; superl. thickest)

1.

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. "A thick board" , "A thick sandwich" , "Spread a thick layer of butter" , "Thick coating of dust" , "Thick warm blankets" Antonym: thin.

2.

Having component parts closely crowded together. "A dense population" , "Thick crowds" , "A thick forest" , "Thick hair"

3.

Relatively dense in consistency. "Thick soup" , "Thick smoke" , "Thick fog" Antonym: thin.

4.

Spoken as if with a thick tongue. Synonym: slurred. "His words were slurred"

5.

Having a short and solid form or stature. Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset. "He was tall and heavyset" , "Stocky legs" , "A thickset young man"

6.

Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Synonym: dense. "Thick woods"

7.

(of darkness) very intense. Synonym: deep. "Thick darkness" , "A face in deep shadow" , "Deep night"

8.

(used informally) associated on close terms. Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy. "The bartender was chummy with the regular customers" , "The two were thick as thieves for months"

9.

(used informally) stupid. Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed.

10.

Abounding; having a lot of.

adverb

1.

With a thick consistency. Synonym: thickly. Antonym: thinly.

2.

In quick succession. Synonym: thickly.

noun

1.

The location of something surrounded by other things. Synonym: midst.

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"Thick" Quotes from Famous Books

... do," says Miss Maliphant quickly. "However, we are not discussing Mr. Beauclerk, beyond the fact that we wonder to see him so genial with Lady Swansdown. They used to be thoroughly antagonistic, and now—why they seem quite good friends, don't they? Quite thick, eh?" with her ...

— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

... 44-gun ships were the finest frigates then afloat (although the British possessed some as heavy, such as the Egyptienne, 44). They were beautifully modelled, with very thick scantling, extremely stout masts, and heavy cannon. Each carried on her main-deck thirty long 24's, and on her spar-deck two long bow-chasers, and twenty or twenty-two carronades—42-pounders on the President and United States, 32-pounders on the Constitution. ...

— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt

... at this present moment, so full of this new bill that we are bringing into parliament, that Cupid might empty his quiver upon me in vain.—Look! here is an impenetrable shield!" added he, wrapping round him a thick printed copy of an act of parliament. "Come, Vivian, you must come along with us ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth

... Turgan and his followers, Damis made his way alone down the hill and into the thick tropical jungle which grew up almost to the gates of the Viceregal palace. He was well acquainted with a secret entrance into the building. It was a matter of minutes for him to locate the outer ...

— Giants on the Earth • Sterner St. Paul Meek

... efforts of the cow. Bruises and lacerations of the passages and flooding from the uncontracted womb may come from the too speedy extraction of the calf. When assistance is necessary, the operator should dress in a thick flannel shirt from which the sleeves have been cut off clear to the shoulders. This avoids danger of exposure and yet leaves the whole arm free and untrammeled. Before inserting the hand it and the arm should be smeared with oil, lard, or vaseline, care being taken that the oil ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

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