Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling slag: as, a hard slaggy mass; slaggy lavas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to slag; resembling slag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a material Resembling or containing
slag . - adjective UK, Australia, New Zealand, pejorative, of a person Resembling a
slag , especially in behaviour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I want everything to be top notch, I want my XviD end result to be the at maximum quality .. and usually 1 click applications tend to do it a bit "slaggy" .. hey guys.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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I want everything to be top notch, I want my XviD end result to be the at maximum quality .. and usually 1 click applications tend to do it a bit "slaggy" .. hey guys.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2010
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Once the worlds leading producer of heroin, carrots, and rope grade hemp, is now a radioactive slaggy area, thanks to a foresightful Reagan administration, which bombed the area with radiation bombs, which consumed the life force of everything in ten kilometer radii.
What would you do? 2007
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Until I watched the show, I had thought - mainly based on the slightly slaggy-looking merchandise - that Hannah Montana was some brassy singing Bratz doll.
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Mickey Rourke from The Wrestler has decided to turn up as well, done up like some sort of slaggy geisha!
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Ricki was asking a slaggy looking girl how old she was and I thought, hmm, how old am I? and then, Oh Dear God, I have no idea!
I still hate you skinny jeans, though I will leave you be for now. onlyemma 2006
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He had, without explanation, the impression of a slaggy cliff and on it, in silhouette against menacing clouds, a lone and austere figure.
Babbit 2004
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It appeared to me a common aerolite covered with a thick slaggy coating, glossy and pitch-like, worn and polished.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The soil is volcanic; in several parts we passed over slaggy lavas, and craters could clearly be distinguished on several of the neighbouring hills.
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The soil is volcanic; in several parts we passed over slaggy lavas, and craters could clearly be distinguished on several of the neighbouring hills.
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Slag is police slang for criminal; slaggy means rough, dodgy, dubious.
‘The sexism was so blatant, as if officers felt irreproachable’: my year on the streets with the Met police Matt Lloyd-Rose 2023
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