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The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
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It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
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A thicket.
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A stupid person; a fool.
verb
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To thicken.
adjective
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Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
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Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
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I want some planks that are two inches thick.
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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.
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Densely crowded or packed.
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We walked through thick undergrowth.
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Having a viscous consistency.
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My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
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Abounding in number.
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The room was thick with reporters.
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Impenetrable to sight.
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We drove through thick fog.
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(Of an accent) Prominent, strong.
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Stupid.
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He was as thick as two short planks.
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Friendly or intimate.
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They were as thick as thieves.
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Deep, intense, or profound.
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Thick darkness.
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Troublesome; unreasonable
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(chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
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In a thick manner.
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Snow lay thick on the ground.
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Frequently or numerously.
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The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
Examples of thick in a Sentence
It was dark, shiny, thick and long.
She stared into the early darkness of a thick cloud cover.
Matthew had thick black hair, but Natalie's was blonde.
The hair on her head was thick.
She cringed at the thick forearm brushing her ear.
The second dealer was moving closer, and she couldn't free herself from the thick arm wrapped around her.
Where the mowers mow the cleanest, Where the hay lies thick and greenest, There to trace the homeward bee, That's the way for Billy and me.
His thick arms squeezed her closer.
Her voice, thick with sleep, ratcheted up his hormones another level.
Sean brought her a bowl of thick beef stew, soda bread, and a Coke.
He noticed her eyelashes, long and thick.
He lay just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt.
His face was clean shaven, but his dark curly hair was thick and unruly.
Confused by his moods, she watched him cross to a thick goblet with a knife beside it.
He sliced his wrist, and her attention turned immediately to thick liquid bubbling against his olive skin.
He wore a white shirt and snug tuxedo pants that outlined long, thick thighs and a tight ass.
The dress was thick silk and moved like water as she pulled it free and held it against her.
After a thick moment of silence, she forced herself to continue.
Need was thick in her body, an inhuman craving she knew now how to satisfy.
She guessed what he'd say before he broke the thick silence between them.
A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.
Thick dark lashes and a deep tan intensified the blue of his eyes, and his freshly shaven face had attractive angles.
The single portal was a thick wooden door that he secured with an equally thick board that fitted across the entire opening on the outside.
He was large and thick with glowing eyes and teeth sharpened into fangs.
She peeled off the thick coat and draped it over one bench before seating herself facing the door, as her father had taught her.
Damian had turned his face away and was clenching a thick knuckle between his teeth.
They were thick and gruesome, creating ridges and channels in his face.
He squeezed her with his thick arms, and again she marveled at how he managed to be gentle with her when he was so strong.
The scent of pine and blooming flowers was thick in the air.
His thick arms were around her, his muscular chest at her back.
Even the beggars outside the thick, bulletproof glass of the main gate were quiet, their small fires dark.
The first gate consisted of a few dozen men better armed than his team atop a thick steel wall with an iron core.
At last, the tunnel sloped upward and dead-ended at a thick metal door.
She sat on a thick log. He disappeared into the shadows of the jungle, and she pulled her knees to her chest, listening. He was silent while the branches overhead hissed and rasped against one another and the cries of distant birds drifted to her.
Another snap of branches from a different direction. Katie whirled in time to see the shadow of someone – or something – disappearing behind a thick tree.
Get this through your thick head—you're the bad guy.
Her breathing was unsteady, the scent of her honey musk and sweat thick in his nostrils.
The tension was thick, their heat filling the empty space between them.
He ran a powerful hand through thick hair that still held a touch of red.
I'll slice it for you as thick as you want.
Megan considered the selection and ordered a pound of lunchmeat sliced thick.
Her tone could have cut through a six-foot thick lead wall.
A thick silence fell.
The periblem, one cell thick at the apex, produces the cortex, to which the piliferous layer belongs in Monocotyledons; and the plerome, which is nearly always sharply separated from the periblem, gives rise to the vascular cylinder.
A loose woollen coat reaching to the knees, and bound round the waist by a thick fold of cotton cloth, forms the dress of the men; the women's dress is a long cloak with loose sleeves.
Their bodies were round, their legs short and thick and their arms extraordinarily long and stout.
Balaga was a fair-haired, short, and snub-nosed peasant of about twenty- seven; red-faced, with a particularly red thick neck, glittering little eyes, and a small beard.
From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood.
Her eyes swept over his muscular form, from his shapely shoulders and wide back to the thick thighs outlined by the sweats.
He released a sigh when he.d transformed and shook snowflakes from his thick coat.