sliming

Pluralslimings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of slime.

   Campaign ads have been sliming the senator for weeks.

   The slug left a glistening trail, sliming every leaf it crossed.

   Note

   The verb's meanings all share this form, and what follows it usually settles which one is meant: sliming a rival smears a name, sliming fish means cutting them open and gutting them, and with no object at all a snail goes sliming along a path. In Singapore the word also covers spreading false, damaging claims about someone.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of coating someone or something with slime, or a single occasion of it.

   The celebrity sliming was the highlight of the awards show.

   After a thorough sliming by the garden slugs, the lettuce was unfit to eat.

3. 3
   nounfigurativelycountable or uncountable

   The act of damaging another person's reputation or speaking of them with contempt.

   The senator called the attack ads a shameless sliming of a decorated veteran.

   Months of anonymous sliming on social media drove the reporter to quit.

   Similarsmear, smearing, vilification

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