slinks

Verb

slink (third-person singular simple present slinks, present participle slinking, simple past and past participle slunk or slinked or (uncommon) slank)

1. (intransitive) To sneak about furtively.
   • As we do turn our backs
     From our companion thrown into his grave,
     So his familiars to his buried fortunes
     Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,
     Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self,
     A dedicated beggar to the air,
     With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty,
     Walks, like contempt, alone.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. (ambitransitive) To give birth to an animal prematurely.
   • a cow that slinks her calf

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