Slime

Quick meaning: Slime is a noun meaning Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
2. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
3. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
4. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
5. (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).

Example Sentences

"What about that, you slime?"

If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.

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

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

Word Forms

• slimes
• sliming
• slimed

Synonyms for slime

Depending on context, synonyms include sludge, flubber, ooze, gunk, goo, guck.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sludge, ooze, muck, goo, gunk, guck.

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