LANK Meaning of LANK in English adj.1 (of hair, grass, etc.) long, limp, and straight. 2 thin and tall. 3 shrunken; spare. Derivatives: lankly adv. lankness n. Etymology: OE hlanc f. Gmc: cf. FLANK, LINK(1) Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012