hank
Also used as slang
View on the slang dictionary page →(Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
"hank" means doubt, difficulty. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"hank" is informal English meaning doubt, difficulty. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "doubt" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "hank" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
“# Hank Hank For other uses, see [Hank (disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_(disambiguation) "Hank (disambiguation)"). **Hank** is a given name and a surname.”
“Green also hosts the podcasts _[Dear Hank & John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Hank_%26_John "Dear Hank & John")_ and _Delete This_ with his brother and wife respectively, along with the podcast _[SciShow Tangents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciShow_Tangents "SciShow Tangents")_.”
“1952) | | Children | - [Hank Williams Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams_Jr.”
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A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
“Hank!!! Don't cover up the first and last letters of GCPD, Hank!!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Garden Grove moves forward on allowing residents to keep pot-bellied pigs as pets https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/300427/ Hank Clemmons, a proud owner of two pot-bellied pigs, received a letter from Garden Grove last year that…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Happy trip round the sun again, Hank. DFTBA 🖖🏼”
— Bluesky· May 2026“gave them time. It's the one WHERE HANK”
“>> we counting Hank as your dog.”
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(nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
: the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose, is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread, and hang it cross a stick, and set one end of it on fire and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils
“Now playing on 91.3 Ayclt FM: Last Outpost by Hank Devlin! Tune in now: https://radio.913aycltfm.com/listen/91.3_ayclt_fm/bluesky”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hank Howard, Pizza Detective: A Slice of Life #1 preview. Hank Howard is back in the one place he thought he'd finally left behind, his hometown of Tampa. But unfortunately for Hank, pizza crime doesn't take a vacation. #comics #comicbooks”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hank is a 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the third film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU). In the film, Hank and his surrogate brother Milo become living vampires after curing themselves of a rare blood disease.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hank spending his birthday making all the rest of us feel old too ;)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“>> we counting Hank as your dog.”
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