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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the Falkland Islands.

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Examples

  • These exposures were called FLK for Frida Leakey’s Korongo, and stone tools were fairly common there.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • These exposures were called FLK for Frida Leakey’s Korongo, and stone tools were fairly common there.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Mary next turned to a site called FLK for Frida Leakey’s Korongo, in cliffs overlooking the area in Bed I where she had found Zinj and her son Jonathan had found the first specimens of Homo habilis.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Mary next turned to a site called FLK for Frida Leakey’s Korongo, in cliffs overlooking the area in Bed I where she had found Zinj and her son Jonathan had found the first specimens of Homo habilis.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • January 30, 2008 at 11:35 am mama kat luks at noo bebbeh, sais, hmmmm, he 1 FLK funnee-lukking kitteh, but i noes taht i can lurves him.

    Angelina kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • One theory that has been floating around is that Cheney is a "pump head," which is one of those vicious M.D. terms -- like Gomer (Get out of my Emergency Room), banana (a jaundice victim), and FLK (funny-looking kid, i.e., retarded due to an organic syndrome).

    Dick Cheney, pump head? Steve Sailer 2005

  • One theory that has been floating around is that Cheney is a "pump head," which is one of those vicious M.D. terms -- like Gomer (Get out of my Emergency Room), banana (a jaundice victim), and FLK (funny-looking kid, i.e., retarded due to an organic syndrome).

    Archive 2005-10-23 Steve Sailer 2005

  • My first stop was the FLK-Zinj site in Tanzania where in 1959 Mary Leakey made her famous discovery of Zinjanthropus (now known as Australopithecus boisei).

    Multimedia: Novice in Wonderland 1998

  • … We went to FLK where I sent you and Thairu those two mornings.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The FLK discovery marked the third time the Leakeys had turned up a large-toothed hominid in direct association with stone tools at Olduvai.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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