slime

Pluralslimes (some meanings)

Formsslimes, sliming, slimed

1. 1
   slippery filmnoununcountable

   Any thick, slippery, or sticky matter, such as mucus, the film slugs and snails leave, or wet mud.

   Slugs glide on a layer of slime that also protects their soft bodies.

   A slick coat of slime covered the inside of the neglected fish tank.

   UsageUsually without a: covered in slime, a layer of slime.

   Similarooze, goo

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A kind of soft, rubbery polymer, also known as flubber.

   The science teacher had students mix glue and borax into slime to study how polymers behave.

   Toy stores now sell slimes in glitter, glow-in-the-dark, and scented versions.

   Similarflubber

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A monster in the form of a slimy blob, found in fantasy stories and games.

   Early in the game, players gain experience by fighting slimes outside the starting town.

   The dungeon's boss was a giant slime that swallowed weaker monsters whole.

   UsageTakes colors and sizes like any creature: a blue slime, a horde of slimes.

4. 4
   sneaky personnounderogatorycolloquialcountable

   A sneaky, dishonest person with no scruples.

   Only a slime would cheat his own grandmother out of her savings.

   The tabloid hired some slime to dig through the actor's trash.

   Similarcreep, lowlife, sleazebag, rat

5. 5
   coat with gooverbtransitive

   To coat something with slime.

   The producers slimed the losing contestant with buckets of green goo.

   Snails will slime every leaf they crawl across.

   UsageOften in the passive: get slimed, was slimed.

6. 6
   verbfigurativelytransitive

   To smear someone's reputation or speak of them with contempt.

   Political operatives spent millions sliming the senator as a crook.

   She refused to slime her rival, even when the race got close.

   UsageUse as to introduce the accusation: slimed the senator as a crook.

   Similarsmear, slander, malign, vilify

   Oppositepraise

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