- an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- an act or instance of leaking.
- any means of unintended entrance or escape.
- the loss of current from a conductor, usually resulting from poor insulation.
- a disclosure of secret, especially official, information, as to the news media, by an unnamed source.
- to let a liquid, gas, light, etc., enter or escape, as through an unintended hole or crack: The boat leaks.
- to pass in or out in this manner, as liquid, gas, or light: gas leaking from a pipe.
- to become known unintentionally (usually followed by out): The news leaked out.
- to disclose secret, especially official, information anonymously, as to the news media: The official revealed that he had leaked to the press in the hope of saving his own reputation.
- to let (liquid, gas, light, etc.) enter or escape: This camera leaks light.
- to allow to become known, as information given out covertly: to leak the news of the ambassador's visit.
- to urinate.
- a crack, hole, etc, that allows the accidental escape or entrance of fluid, light, etc
- such escaping or entering fluid, light, etc
- to develop a leak
- something resembling this in effect
- the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc
- a disclosure, often intentional, of secret information
- the act or an instance of leaking
- a slang word for urination
- to enter or escape or allow to enter or escape through a crack, hole, etc
- to disclose (secret information), often intentionally, or (of secret information) to be disclosed
- (intr) a slang word for urinate
