slime
/slaɪm/ noun B2- 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.
- Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
- A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- A friend; a homie.
- Semen.
Plural slimes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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From amid a tuft of cotton grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.
Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.
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