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
- Next we turn to slime and two liters of slime.
- So Slime mould and slime mould are the same toWikipedia.
- She finds the other side of the bed drenched in black slime.
- He has the same slime barrier move and can leap great distances.
- He emerged later on with tentacles and the ability to spew slime.
- The slime coating, however, may cause indigestion if not removed.
- The gravity generator allows the slime to take any shape and levitate.
- Exhausted and covered in glutinous slime, they pressed home their attacks.
- His physicians prescribed a mixture of frog and snail slime as a poultice.
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