slink

IPA: sɫˈɪŋk

noun

  • (countable) A furtive sneaking motion.
  • The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
  • The meat of such a prematurely born animal.
  • (obsolete) A bastard child, one born out of wedlock.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

verb

  • (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.

adjective

  • (Scotland) Thin; lean
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Examples of "slink" in Sentences

  • Now back I slink into semi retirement.
  • I shall have to slink away in shame now.
  • If related to Anonymous, will slink away.
  • Slink is created by members of BBC Switch.
  • Off to slink into the background once again.
  • Slink is an online magazine for teenage girls.
  • I'm not going ot slink on here and lie about it.
  • Dave is shocked to find Eli slinking to the back.
  • And so she had to kind of slink back to the table.
  • They will otherwise slink about, and hide from her.
  • Braden is the oldest Lavery sibling, and slinks into town in 1998.
  • Bush began the American "slink" out of the mess that his lies got us into.
  • Normally when you drop out of the presidential race, you kind of slink home and lay low.
  • December 3rd, 2009 9: 34 am ET you announce, you don't announce and simply 'slink' away like a beaten dog
  • I see a person what you may call slink away secret, like she'd done somethin 'to be' shamed of, 'twas that girl.
  • Dictionary.com had several meanings for the word "slink" but I like this one: "to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way".
  • It is an ascertained fact that young or "slink" veal very frequently gives rise to diarrhoea, more especially when that disease is epidemic.
  • It may also be mentioned here that the sight of a green, freshly-skinned hide, or a freshly-skinned carcass, will frequently cause cows to "slink" their calves.

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