leakier; leakiest
: permitting fluid to leak in or out
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Place leaky items like defrosting meat on plates, bowls, or paper towels to catch drips.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Amazon's post-Christmas sale is the perfect time to update your old, leaky tent for a new model, like the Coleman Sundome Camping Tent, now $62.
—Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2025
Young's encouraging showing and all the offense wasn't enough to overcome the leaky defense.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
The third line’s leaky play in the neutral zone did not help.
—Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Amazon's post-Christmas sale is the perfect time to update your old, leaky tent for a new model, like the Coleman Sundome Camping Tent, now $62.
—Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2025
Young's encouraging showing and all the offense wasn't enough to overcome the leaky defense.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
The third line’s leaky play in the neutral zone did not help.
—Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
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“Leaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leaky. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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leaky
adjective
leakier; leakiest
: permitting fluid to leak in or out
a leaky boat
leakiness
noun
Medical Definition
leaky
adjective
: relating to or being a mutant gene that changes the structure of the protein and especially an enzyme that it determines so that some but not all of its biological activity is lost
also
: being such a protein with subnormal activity
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