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Definition of "lech" [lech]

  • A lecher: "a coke-snorting arbitrageur who's an irrepressible lech” ( Pauline Kael). (noun)
  • A lecherous desire. (noun)
  • To behave in a lecherous manner. (verb-intransitive)
  • Variant of letch. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lech" in a sentence
  • "Other names for pig are cerdo, cochino and marrano, and a suckling pig is called a lechón."
  • "not to stereotype or anything, but every single guy that has offered me a ride has the word 'lech' dripping from their eyes."
  • "As many of you doubtlessly know, getting your foot in the door is the hardest part of becoming a drug-addled, world-weary, bourgeois lech with a ballpoint pen for a cock and the world's ear as your toilet the rest comes surprisingly easy."