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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.
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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.
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Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).countableuncountable
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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A friend; a homie.countableslanguncountable
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Semen.countableslanguncountable
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To coat with slime.transitive
- Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.
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To besmirch or disparage.figurativelytransitive
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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.
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To move like slime.intransitive
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To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.figurativelyintransitive
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To murder.slangtransitive
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To denigrate or slander.Singaporetransitive