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1. (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake

1. Lacking excess flesh
   "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
   - thin
    
2. Lacking in mineral content or combustible material
   "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
    
3. Containing little excess
   "a lean budget"
   - skimpy
    
4. Not profitable or prosperous
   "a lean year"

Derived forms: leaners

See also: anorectic, anorexic, body weight, boney, bony, cadaverous, deep-eyed, deficient, ectomorphic, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed, insufficient, lank, lanky, lean, leanness, pinched, rawboned, reedlike, reedy, scarecrowish, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled [US], shrivelled [Brit, Cdn], shrunken, skeletal, skinny, slender, slender-waisted, slight, slim, slim-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, spindly, stringy, sunken-eyed, svelte, thin, trim, twiggy, twiglike, underweight, unprofitable, wasp-waisted, wasted, weedy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, withered, wizen, wizened

Type of: throw

Antonym: rich

Encyclopedia: Lean Lean, Sir David