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leak

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What does leak mean?

noun

  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
More meanings (14)

noun

  1. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  2. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  3. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  4. (slang, vulgar) An act of urination.

verb

  1. To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  2. (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
  3. To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
  4. (figuratively) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
  5. (figuratively) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
  6. (slang) To urinate.
  7. (slang) To bleed.
  8. (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

adjective

  1. (obsolete) Leaky.
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"John never told me much, and you have let mighty little leak into the papers. What was he? Who was he?"
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
The Thomas of Ipswich caught a great leak, which caused her to cast again to sea board, and so was mended.
Richard HakluytVoyages in Search of the North-West PassageProject Gutenberg ebook #3482
More book examples (3)
The acetylene-gas lighting plant installed in the hut by Captain Scott had been rigged, and one day it developed a leak.
Ernest Henry, Sir ShackletonSouth: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Project Gutenberg ebook #5199
We thus managed to keep afloat until we reached our destination, when the men patched up the leak for our return journey.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440
Why, they will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney, and your chamber-lye breeds fleas like a loach.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100