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  • noun An obsolete form of leek.

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Examples

  • It is out of my own pocket however and I am just hoping worth the leke.

    Followup Albanian Pete 2009

  • Rang-birangi raakhi leke aayi bahana o raakhi bandhava le mere veer - 2

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • It is out of my own pocket however and I am just hoping worth the leke.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Albanian Pete 2009

  • Most people approach their to-do list like it's a box of chocolates (and not in the somewhat endearing Forest Gump "lefe is leke a bax o 'chokolates" way.)

    Karen Leland: What Pez Candy And Time Management Have In Common 2009

  • Currency (code): lek (ALL) note: the plural of lek is leke

    Albania 2008

  • May 16, 2008 at 11:41 am rownd here, teh publick transpertashun duznt werk unless yu werks in salt leke oar goze to collige- an even tehn, teh busses r MT moastuv teh taim. aim jus happee dat tehy duz take me to skool, kuz ai duznt has a kar.

    Yep, I see your problem - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • For instance, I was working with a loan officer last week and people were taking out loans, and he would ask how much some asset of theirs cost them, and the person would say “one million leke”, for example, and the loan officer would write down 100,000 leke, as banks of course are normal.

    Chris in Albania: 2005

  • When I ask how much the sandwich costs, they say, “one thousand leke”.

    Chris in Albania: 2005

  • So, for instance, I go to a restaurant and buy a sandwich, which costs 100 leke (on paper), or about a dollar.

    Chris in Albania: 2005

  • Apparantly, some time around 1967, the Albanian government decided that they should drop a zero from the leke, it must have been a bit like the Italian Lira, where it costs like 10,000 Lira for a coke or something.

    Chris in Albania: 2005

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  • A plural of lek, a monetary unit of Albania.

    June 28, 2010