Meanings

1. 1

   archaicbright

2. 2

   spotlessly clean, shining, polished

   Du musst die Platte blank scheuern.You must rub the platter until it is shining.

3. 3

   bare, naked, uncovered

   mit blankem Hinternwith one’s behind uncovered

4. 4

   pure, sheer

   Blanke Wut packte ihn.Sheer anger seized him.

5. 5

   colloquialbroke, out of money

6. 6

   being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)

   Hätte ich Trumpf ausgespielt, wäre mein Fuchs blank gewesen.If I had played trump, my “fox” [ace of diamonds in Doppelkopf] would have been my last trump card.

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