slime — English Dictionary

Noun

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.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   sludge

   Examples

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

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

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Narrower terms

   butter slimecloud slime

4. A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Derogatory
   • Informal
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   "What about that, you slime?"

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   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. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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

6. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Figurative
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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

7. Jew’s slime (bitumen).

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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. A friend; a homie.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable

9. Semen.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Slang
   • Uncountable
   • Vulgar

Verb

1. To coat with slime.

   Usage

   • Transitive

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   ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

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

2. To besmirch or disparage.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • Transitive

3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.

   Examples

   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. To move like slime.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

5. To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • Intransitive

6. To murder.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Transitive

7. To denigrate or slander.

   Usage

   • Singapore
   • Transitive

Noun

1. any thick, viscous matter

   Synonyms

   sludgegoogoopgookguckgunkmuckooze

   Broader terms

   matter

Verb

1. cover or stain with slime

   Broader terms

   dirtysoilbegrimegrimecollybemire

   Examples

   The snake slimed his victim