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1. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
    
2. An enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces

1. Very fertile; producing profuse growth
   "rank earth"
    
2. Very offensive in smell or taste
   "a rank cigar"
    
3. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
   "rank treachery";
   - crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross
    
4. Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as an intensifier
   "a rank outsider";
   - absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer, down-the-line [informal]
    
5. Growing profusely
   "rank jungle vegetation"

Sounds like: rancor, r

Derived forms: rankers

See also: abundant, complete, conspicuous, fertile, offensive

Type of: commissioned officer, pongo [Brit, informal], soldier

Encyclopedia: Ranker