slime

/slaɪm/

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Australia/slɑem/

slime noun: 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.

Noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

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.
- As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
Synonyms:

sludge
Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound, page 44
Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).

Synonyms:

flubber
(derogatory, informal) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- "What about that, you slime?"1980, Richard Louis Newmann, Siege of Orbitor, page xvii. 78
- If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery
A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8
(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
(obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
- And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:3
(slang, African-American Vernacular) A friend; a homie.
(slang, vulgar) Semen.

Verb

slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)

(transitive) To coat with slime.
- ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.2014, Sparkle Abbey, Fifty Shades of Greyhound
(figuratively, transitive) To besmirch or disparage.
To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20
- You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN
(intransitive) To move like slime.
(figuratively, intransitive) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
(slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To murder.
(Singapore, transitive) To denigrate or slander.

slime meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

slime in Hindi

slime, muck, sludge: कीचड़ kīcaṛ
slime: अवपंक avpaṅk

slime in Tamil

குழைகளி, மீன் வழக்குத் திரவம்

slime in Urdu

slime, muck, sludge: کیچڑ kīcaṛ

slime in Bengali

পিচ্ছিল কাদা, আঠালো তরল

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slime in Telugu: బంక baṅka
slime in Malayalam: ചളി, ചേറ്, പശയുളള മണ്ണ്, കന്മദം
slime in Kannada: ಕೆಸರು, ಅಂಟು, ಲೋಳೆ
slime in Assamese: বিজল bizol
slime in Tagalog: alabwab, banlik
slime in Persian: لجن lajan, لغزناک laɣaznāk, لغزان laɣzān, لزج lazaj
slime in Thai: เลน leen, โคลน kloon, เมือก mʉ̂ʉak
slime in Vietnamese: nhớt

Examples of slime in a sentence

Can anyone send me the link for a Phantom of the Opera slime tutorial?
"Hiyah!" The sound of the punch she threw was clearly different than yesterday, and it sent the slime flying.
I was driving to get groceries when a deer jumped in front of my car and I flowkirkuinely slimed it out.

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Synonyms of slime

Forms of slime

Noun
plural	slimes
Verb
third-person singular present	slimes
present participle	sliming
past participle	slimed
past	slimed

Plural of slime: slimes

Origin of slime

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”). The slang sense of "to murder" spread among Black communites throughout the 2010s and gained prominence on TikTok around 2021.

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Questions about slime

What does slime mean?: Slime means 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.
What is slime in Hindi?: Slime in Hindi is कीचड़ (kīcaṛ), अवपंक (avpaṅk). See Slime meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is slime?: Slime can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce slime?: Slime is pronounced /slaɪm/ (UK).
What is the plural of slime?: The plural of slime is slimes.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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