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sheik
[sheek, sheyk]
noun
Also sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
Slang.a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.
Other Word Forms
- sheiklike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of sheik1
Example Sentences
By the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.
Al-Hela, a businessman and tribal sheik from Yemen, was first captured in Egypt in 2002 and held overseas before being brought to Guantánamo two years later.
The key piece of evidence was a videotape of Myers meeting an FBI agent posing as an Arab sheik in a motel room at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
They are asked politely by the sheik to refrain from talking during his lesson.
The One and its myriad extravagances are reserved for sheiks and nobles, celebrities and CEOs.
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