slagger
/ˈslæɡ.ə/US/ˈslæɡ.ɚ/
slagger noun: one who slags.
Noun
slagger (plural slaggers)
- One who slags.
- The proper response to slagging is to laugh at oneself while “getting back” at one′s slagger.1999, Elizabeth A. Throop, Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family, and Public Life in Dublin, page 54
- One who works with slag.
- Miravich closes his eyes and remembers his days as a slagger. When a mold is full, a slagger moves in with his tool, a technological marvel othereise known as a board slightly larger than a two-by-four. He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is...2009, John Hoerr, Monongahela Dusk, page 255
Forms of slagger
| plural | slaggers |
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Origin of slagger
From slag + -er.
Words that rhyme with slagger
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Questions about slagger
- What does slagger mean?
- Slagger means one who slags.
- What part of speech is slagger?
- Slagger is a noun.
- How do you pronounce slagger?
- Slagger is pronounced /ˈslæɡ.ɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of slagger?
- The plural of slagger is slaggers.
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