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noun/slaɪm//slɑem/[slɑe̯m]
  1. 1

    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.countableuncountable

    • As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
  2. 2

    Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.countableuncountable

    • You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.
  3. 3

    Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).countableuncountable

  4. 4

    A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.countablederogatoryinformal

    • "What about that, you slime?"
    • If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.
  5. 5

    A monster having the form of a slimy blob.countableuncountable

    • This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.
  6. 6

    Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.countablefigurativelyobsolete

    • […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]
  7. 7

    Jew’s slime (bitumen).countableobsoleteuncountable

    • And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
  8. 8

    A friend; a homie.countableslanguncountable

  9. 9

    Semen.countableslanguncountable

verb/slaɪm//slɑem/[slɑe̯m]
  1. 1

    To coat with slime.transitive

    • Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.
  2. 2

    To besmirch or disparage.figurativelytransitive

  3. 3

    To carve (fish), removing the offal.

    • If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.
    • You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.
  4. 4

    To move like slime.intransitive

  5. 5

    To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.figurativelyintransitive

  6. 6

    To murder.slangtransitive

  7. 7

    To denigrate or slander.Singaporetransitive

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