Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick, sticky, slippery substance.
- noun Biology A mucous substance secreted by certain animals, such as catfishes and slugs.
- noun Soft moist earth; mud.
- noun A slurry containing very fine particulate matter.
- noun Vile or disgusting matter.
- noun Slang A despicable or repulsive person.
- transitive verb To smear with slime.
- transitive verb To remove slime from (fish to be canned, for example).
- transitive verb To vilify or malign (someone), especially publicly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any soft, ropy, glutinous, or viscous substance.
- noun Asphalt or bitumen.
- noun A mucous, viscous, or glutinous substance exuded from the bodies of certain animals, notably fishes and mollusks: as, the slime of a snail. In some cases this slime is the secretion of a special gland, and it may on hardening form a sort of operculum. See slime-gland, clausiliumt and hibernaculum, 3 .
- noun Figuratively, anything of a clinging and offensive nature; cringing or fawning words or actions.
- noun In metallurgy, ore reduced to a very fine powder and held in suspension in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud: generally used in the plural.
- To cover with or as with slime; make slimy.
- To remove slime from, as fish for canning.
- To become slimy: acquire slime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To smear with slime.
- noun Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
- noun Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
- noun (Script.), Archaic Bitumen.
- noun (Mining) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- noun (Physiol.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
- noun (Zoöl.) See 1st
Hag , 4. - noun a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality;
viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive;bitumen ; mud containing metallicore , obtained in the preparatorydressing . - noun Any
mucilaginous substance; or amucus -like substance whichexudes from the bodies of certain animals, such assnails orslugs . - noun figuratively, obsolete Human
flesh , seen disparagingly; mere human form. - noun obsolete =
Jew’s slime (bitumen ) - verb transitive To
coat with slime. - verb transitive, figuratively To
besmirch ordisparage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any thick, viscous matter
- verb cover or stain with slime
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I didnt see any strings on the rocket ship, but when you see the plastic slime inching up the ramp toward our crew, you know its a plastic sheet of slime, and the freaky tie-dye technique with the Venus sky is pure 1960s state of the art.
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They warned the Clinton campaign against engaging in what they called slime politics and Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
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Standing in slime, struggling with machines that don't work, hosted by merchants who don't care -- this isn't fair to the Oregon consumer who just wants to do the right thing.
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Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior.
First on the Ticker: GOP heckler blasted by 2010 challenger 2009
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Steele might as well have said “slime is not a crime”.
Think Progress » 170 House Republicans rebuff Steele by voting to ban RNC’s ‘Census’ mailer. 2010
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In December 2019, Columbia Journalism Review dug into Timpone’s network, which it described as “pink slime,” or “low-cost automated story generation.”
Flyers Threatening White HP Parents Who Send Their Kids to the Ivy League Reek of Fakeness Steven Monacelli 2021
mollusque commented on the word slime
He dreamed of mellowing his pigments as the Old Masters had done--with honey, fig juice, poppy oil, and the slime of pink snails.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1957, Pnin, p. 67
November 16, 2007