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Slows
- verb - become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
- cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
- lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
Slubs
- noun - soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
Slues
- verb - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
Slugs
- noun - (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"
- a counterfeit coin
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped; "he took a slug of hard liquor"
- an idle slothful person
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"
Slums
- noun - a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
- spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
Slurs
- noun - (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
- a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"
- become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"
- utter indistinctly
Sluts
- noun - a dirty untidy woman
- a woman adulterer
Smews
- noun - smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia
Smogs
- noun - air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
Smuts
- noun - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
- South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot