lean🔊

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with ''to'', ''toward'', etc.

(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

To hang outwards.

To press against.

(of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.

(slim)(of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy. +

(of meat) Having little fat.

Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. +

Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. +

(archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to (fat).

(business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

Meat with no fat on it.

(biology) An organism that is lean in stature.

(make leaner) To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. +

(slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States. +