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dek
noun
The subhead of a news story.
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Like many others he had been a dek wat, a "temple kid", washing the monks' dishes and carrying their alms-bowls.
He was a fan of the Islanders and was extremely competitive in a local dek hockey league, playing goalie and defense with tremendous heart.
Lynne dek Russo was born on May 2, 1939 in New York City, the daughter of Frank B. Sawdon, an advertising executive and Minerva Fedyn Sawdon, who remarried Paul W. Williams, a former U.S. Attorney and Supreme Court judge.
Some of us grizzlies prefer the word bank, but that is a synonym for the subhead — lines in smaller type below a headline, adding information to, or diminishing the catchiness of, the head — which is sometimes called a deck, often spelled dek.
In the Nilo-Saharan languages the word tok, tek or dek means one.
This film is rated R. WITH: Robert Carlyle (Jimmy, Rhys Ifanss (Dek), Kathy Burke (Carol, Shirley Henderson Shirley, Ricky Tomlinson Charlie and Finn Atkinstkins (Marlene).
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Skiers were waiting to hit the Ski-Dek.
But Khidekel (pronounced hee-DEK-el) never built his aeropolis.
From shmekl, the diminutive of shmuk (penis), and deker (a cover), this is some Yiddish speakers' term for "condom".
Mr. F. anticipates setting up banks of Ski-Deks like bowling alleys.
As a consequence, one almost never sees someone outright lose a one-on-one challenge — none of the old Howie Meeker-delighting, chuckle-inducing "He just deked him right out of his underwear!" bit.
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