How to pronounce lean

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What lean means

adjective

Most people know lean in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

Thin and fit, with very little fat

In a sentence: The lean wolf trotted for miles across the snowy hills.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word meaning thin. That word was perhaps linked to the lean that means to tilt.

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