The Clue
Fouler (6 letter answer)
The Answer
RANKER
Tags
Notes
The answer RANKER is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
RANKER as a noun:
1. a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status
2. an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces
RANK as an adjective:
1. very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
2. very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
3. (crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank) = conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
4. (absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer) = complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
5. growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"