Resembling, relating to, or having the quality of flanking; positioned on the side.
English adjective formed from 'flank' plus the suffix '-y' (meaning having the quality of).
This is the kind of word that probably existed in military slang but rarely made it to official dictionaries because English prefers using 'flank' as a verb instead of adjective.
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