flanker UK /ˈflæŋkə/US /ˈflæŋkɚ/noun 6verb 2forms 3 noun6 •A player who plays in the back row of the scrum. •A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage. •A usually lower-end brand or product introduced in order to target competitors and protect a company's main market share. •Newly created perfume that shares some attributes of an already existing perfume. •A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.[The planters’ houses] were frequently constructed with flankers and loopholes, for the purpose of firing upon the assailants when they approached so near. — 1803 •One of a pair of large upright monoliths erected on either end of the recumbent, in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland. verb2 •(no longer used) To attack sideways.[…] to my observation in our Climates, where those sharp winds do rather flanker than blow fully opposite upon our Plantations, they thrive best […] — 1670 •(no longer used) To defend by lateral fortifications.the Castle was neither so weakly mann'd nor flanker'd as they were made belive — 1634 formsflankered · flankering · flankers