what does thick mean?
THICK as NOUN
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- the location of something surrounded by other things
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- in the midst of the crowd
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THICK as ADJECTIVE
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- abundantly covered or filled
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- the top was thick with dust
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- a compact shopping center
- a dense population
- thick crowds
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- heavy and compact in form or stature
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- a wrestler of compact build
- he was tall and heavyset
- stocky legs
- a thick middle-aged man
- a thickset young man
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- spoken as if with a thick tongue
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- the thick speech of a drunkard
- his words were slurred
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- (of darkness) very intense
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- thick night
- thick darkness
- a face in deep shadow
- deep night
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- hard to pass through because of dense growth
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- dense vegetation
- thick woods
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- not thin
- of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
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- an inch thick
- a thick board
- a thick sandwich
- spread a thick layer of butter
- thick coating
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- relatively dense in consistency
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- thick cream
- thick soup
- thick smoke
- thick fog
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THICK as ADVERB
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- misfortunes come fast and thick
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- the blood was flowing thick
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