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slot

UK/slɒt//slɑt/

slot noun: a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it. Also the clipping of slot machine.

Noun (1)

slot (plural slots)

  1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
    • insert tab A into slot B
    Antonyms:
    tab
  2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
    • I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.
    • With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.
  3. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
    • The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216
    • Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer
      Hath left his slot beside the way;
      The little Ermine now is seen
      White wanderer of the snow; […]
      And hark! the rosy-breasted bird,
      The Throstle of sweet song!1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and...
  4. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
    • By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111
    • Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161
  5. (slang) The vulva.
  6. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
  7. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
    • The game offers four save slots.
  8. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
  9. (slang) The barrel or tube of a wave.
  10. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
  11. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
  12. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
    • She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165
    • Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20
  13. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
    • The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111
  14. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

Verb (1)

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
  2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
  3. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
  4. To put something where it belongs.
    • And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
  5. (Rhodesia, UK, slang, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
    • One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31
    • Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59
  6. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
    • The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it...1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504
    • I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen
  7. (informal, Australian rules football) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Noun (2)

slot (plural slots)

  1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
  2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
  4. (obsolete) A fort or castle.
    • Thou paydst for building of a slot,
      That wrought thine own decay.1578, Barnabe Rich, Allarme to England

Verb (2)

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To shut with violence; to slam.
    • to slot a door

Also used as

slot is also the clipping of slot machine.

slot meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

slot in Tamil

ஸ்லாட்

slot in Marathi

स्लाॅट, स्लॉट करणे

slot in Urdu

سلاٹ کرنا

slot in Bengali

স্লট করার জন্য
More languagesFewer languages
slot in Telugu
స్లాట్, స్లాట్ చెయ్యడానికి
slot in Malayalam
സ്ലോട്ട്, സ്ലാറ്റ്, സ്ലാട്ട്
slot in Kannada
ಸ್ಲಾಟ್
slot in Punjabi
ਸਲਾਟ, ਸਲੋਟ ਕਰਨਾ, ਸਲੋਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
slot in Gujarati
સ્લૉટ, સ્લોટ કરવા
slot in Nepali
स्लाट्, स्लट गर्न

Examples of slot in a sentence

  • One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
  • But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:
  • They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184:
  • At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole.1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages...

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Antonyms of slot

Forms of slot

Noun
pluralslots
alternative formslote
Verb
third-person singular presentslots
present participleslotting
past participleslotted
pastslotted

Past tense of slot: slotted

Plural of slot: slots

Origin of slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

From Middle English slot, from Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slutą, related to the verb *sleutaną (“to lock”). Cognate with Dutch slot, German Schloss (“door-bolt”). The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Words formed from slot

Phrases with slot

Words that rhyme with slot

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Questions about slot

What does slot mean?
Slot means a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
What is slot in Tamil?
Slot in Tamil is ஸ்லாட். See Slot meaning in Tamil.
How do you use slot in a sentence?
One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
What part of speech is slot?
Slot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce slot?
Slot is pronounced /slɒt/ (UK).
What is the plural of slot?
The plural of slot is slots.

Words near slot in the dictionary

  1. sloshiness
  2. sloshing
  3. sloshingly
  4. sloshings
  5. sloshy
  6. slot
  7. slot canyon
  8. slot canyons
  9. slot car
  10. slot cars
  11. slot in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slot (page history and authors); slot (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); slot (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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