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slinker

slinker noun: one who slinks.

Noun

slinker (plural slinkers)

  1. One who slinks.
    • P. G. Wodehouse
      He paws! He's a slinker and a prowler and a leerer. He's a pest and a worm!
    • The car was a nine-year-old Wolseley, and I called it "The Hard Black Slinker". It went well but not very fast.1946, Roald Dahl, The Mildenhall Treasure

Proper noun capitalized: Slinker

Slinker (plural Slinkers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of slinker

Noun
pluralslinkers
Proper noun
pluralSlinkers

Origin of slinker

From slink + -er.

Questions about slinker

What does slinker mean?
Slinker means one who slinks.
What part of speech is slinker?
Slinker can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of slinker?
The plural of slinker is slinkers.

Words near slinker in the dictionary

  1. slink butcher
  2. slink butchers
  3. Slinkard
  4. Slinkards
  5. slinked
  6. slinker
  7. slinkers
  8. slinkest
  9. slinketh
  10. slinkier
  11. slinkies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slinker (page history and authors); Slinker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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