To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
a leaning column
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.
An inclination away from the vertical.
The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.
Slim; not fleshy.
They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.
A surname.
From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), fro...
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Meat with no fat on it.
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean.
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.
Eyes real tight 'cause I'm chokin' the creep; vision messed up 'cause I'm drinkin' the lean.
Having little fat.
lean steak cuts