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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slink.

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Examples

  • His poor regulator got up there and got beat up by Barney Frank and whoever, Chris Dodd, and the regulators just lost their teeth and kind of slinked away.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • His poor regulator got up there and got beat up by Barney Frank and whoever, Chris Dodd, and the regulators just lost their teeth and kind of slinked away.

    Latest Articles RushLimbaugh.com 2010

  • The smoke built around Suzaku and the dragon slinked into the darkness.

    Arcana Magi Rush H-M Brown 2011

  • Apparently they don't mind my husband being around because there they were, in plain sight, while the poor, terrified culinary scissors had slinked away under the cover of darkness and closed themselves up in my husband's toolbox, no doubt hoping to remain there until the next deployment.

    The Hostility in this Household Must Stop! - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • Mrs. March, her body looking as if it was slipping off her bones, slinked over to a chair and sat.

    Family Storms 2011

  • Chickens ran underfoot; low-bellied cats slinked after them.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Chickens ran underfoot; low-bellied cats slinked after them.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Chickens ran underfoot; low-bellied cats slinked after them.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • I asked dr demented how he was able to get computer privilidges at the mental hospital that he calls home and then he just slinked off ..

    Think Progress » Obama’s second TSA nominee backs out. 2010

  • I slinked through the crowd of dancing bodies and hurled myself into the girls bathroom, where I plopped down on a toilet seat and sobbed.

    Jared Sampson's Mom Dallas Woodburn 2012

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