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slimes

noun

Meaning

  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.
  2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  3. A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  4. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
  5. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  6. Jew’s slime (bitumen)
  7. To coat with slime.
  8. To besmirch or disparage.
  9. To carve (fish), removing the offal.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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