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Dyke /daɪk/ n
dyke1 /daɪk/USA pronunciation n.
dyke2 or dike /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable][Slang (disparaging and offensive).]
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026- dike1.
dyke2 or dike /daɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable][Slang (disparaging and offensive).]
- Sex and Gender, Slang Termsa female homosexual;
lesbian.
dike1 or dyke /daɪk/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
dike2 /daɪk/USA pronunciation n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- a thick wall or embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river.
- Civil Engineeringditch.
dike2 /daɪk/USA pronunciation n.
- dyke2.
dyke1
(dīk),USA pronunciation n., v., dyked, dyk•ing.
dyke2 (dīk),USA pronunciation n. [Slang (disparaging and offensive).]
dyke′y, adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- dike1.
dyke2 (dīk),USA pronunciation n. [Slang (disparaging and offensive).]
- Sex and Gender, Slang Termsa female homosexual;
lesbian.
- 1940–45; earlier in form bulldike (with a variant bulldagger); of obscure origin, originally; claimed to be a shortening of morphodyke (variant of morphodite, a reshaping of hermaphrodite), though morphodyke is more likely a blend of, blended morphodite and a pre-existing dyke; other hypothesized connections, such as with diked out or dike "ditch,'' are dubious on semantic grounds
dike1
(dīk),USA pronunciation n., v., diked, dik•ing.
n.
v.t.
dik′er, n.
dike2 (dīk),USA pronunciation n. [Slang](often disparaging and offensive).
n.
- Civil Engineeringan embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river:They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
- Civil Engineeringa ditch.
- Civil Engineeringa bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
- Civil Engineeringa causeway.
- British Termsa low wall or fence, esp. of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.
- an obstacle;
barrier. - Geology
- a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock.
- a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.
- British Terms[Chiefly Australian Slang.]a urinal.
v.t.
- Civil Engineeringto furnish or drain with a dike.
- Civil Engineeringto enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike:to dike a tract of land.
- Old Norse dīki; akin to ditch
- Middle English dik(e), Old English dīc bef. 900
dike2 (dīk),USA pronunciation n. [Slang](often disparaging and offensive).
- Sex and Genderdyke2.
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dyke, dike /daɪk/ n
- an embankment constructed to prevent flooding, keep out the sea, etc
- a ditch or watercourse
- a bank made of earth excavated for and placed alongside a ditch
- Scot a wall, esp a dry-stone wall
- a barrier or obstruction
- a vertical or near-vertical wall-like body of igneous rock intruded into cracks in older rock
- Austral NZ informal
- a lavatory
- (as modifier): a dyke roll
- (transitive) to protect, enclose, or drain (land) with a dyke
dyke, dike /daɪk/ n
- offensive slang a lesbian
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