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Make sure to order the "thin crust" pizza; there's also a regular crust pizza (more along the lines of what you're used to as a New York-style crust), but the thin is the thing to get here.

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  1. adjective Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension: a thin book.
  2. adjective Not great in diameter or cross section; fine: thin wire.
  3. adjective Lean or slender in form, build, or stature.
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  • The shooter was described as a thin, 20-year-old black man with black hair and wearing a white T-shirt.
  • The suspect is described as a thin, black man in his late 20s or 30s, with a thin beard, and between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall.
  • "The suspect is described as a thin, black male, 20 to 30 years old, about 5 feet 8, who probably uses a bicycle to cruise neighborhoods." —  Poynter Online
  • ` ` The U.S. Government's willingness to support bailouts appears to be running thin, which is negative for share prices near term, '' RBC Capital markets analyst Andre-Philippe Hardy wrote in a note to clients. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The man, who is described as a thin Hispanic male between 6 feet 3 inches and 6 feet 7 inches tall, entered the Mutual of Omaha Bank at 7139 E. Shea Boulevard about 4: 30 p.m. and passed a note to the teller demanding money and saying that he had a gun, according to police. —  East Valley Tribune - Today's Top Stories
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English thynne; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English thinne, thynne, thenne, thunne, from Anglo-Saxon thynne = Middle Dutch, Dutch dun = Middle Low German dunne, Low German dunn = Old High German dunni, thunni, Middle High German dünne, German dünn = Icelandic thunnr = Swedish tunn = Danish tynd = Gothic (Moesogothic) *thunnus (not recorded), thin, = Middle High German tunewenge; = Welsh teneu = Gaelic Irish tana = Old Bulgarian tinukŭ = Russian tonkŭ (with a deriv. suffix) = Latin tenuis, thin, slim, =Greek *τανύς (in comp. and deriv.), also ταναός (for *ταναΝος; in comp. ταναυ-), stretched out, slim, long, thin, taper, = Sanskrit tanu, stretched out, thin; orig. ‘stretched out,’ connected with a verb seen in Anglo-Saxon *thenian, *thennan, in comp. ā-thenian = Old High German dennan, Middle High German denen, German dohnen = Gothic (Moesogothic) *thanjan, in comp. uf-thanjan, stretch out (a secondary form of Anglo-Saxon *thenan, etc.), = Latin tendere, stretch (tenere, hold), = Greek τείνειν, stretch, = Sanskrit √ tan, stretch, etc. A very prolific root; from the L. adjective are ult. English tenuous, tenuity, attenuate, extenuate, etc., and from the L. verb root are ult. English tend, attend, intend, etc., tendon, etc. (see tend); from the Greek, tone, tonic, etc., tænia, tasis, etc.
  2. from thin, a.
  3. from Middle English thynnen, from Anglo-Saxon ge-thynnan, make thin, from thynne, thin: see thin, a.
 

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