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.
  • Steele might as well have said “slime is not a crime”.
  • 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.
  • 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 didn’t see any strings on the rocket ship, but when you see the plastic slime inching up the ramp toward our crew, you know it’s 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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