slime
IPA: sɫˈaɪm
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 metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”)
- (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
- (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
verb
- (transitive) To coat with slime.
- (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
- To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- (intransitive, often figurative) To move like slime, like slimy things or like a slimy person.
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Examples of "slime" in Sentences
- Steele might as well have said “slime is not a crime”.
- Now that is what I call a slime-ball but the sheepherders signed a contract knowing the terms.
- They warned the Clinton campaign against engaging in what they called slime politics and Obama told reporters he won't be swift-boated.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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