Definition of slink Slink
slink
We found 16 definitions of slink from 5 different sources.
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What does slink mean?
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| slink - walk stealthily; "I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey" | ||
| walk obtain a base on balls | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- slink (a.)
To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. - slink (a.)
To miscarry; -- said of female beasts. - slink (v. t.)
To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf. - slink (a.)
Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf. - slink (a.)
Thin; lean. - slink (n.)
The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time. - slink (n.)
A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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slingk, v.i. to creep or crawl away, as if ashamed: to sneak:—pa.t. and pa.p. slunk. [A.S. slincan, to creep; Low Ger. sliken, Ger. schleichen.] -
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slingk, v.t. to cast prematurely, as a calf.—v.i. to miscarry.—n. a calf prematurely born: the flesh of such: a bastard child.—adj. prematurely born: unfit for food: lean, starved: mean.—ns. Slink′-butch′er, one who kills and dresses for sale the carcasses of diseased animals; Slink′skin, the skin of a slink, or leather made from it.—adj. Slink′y, lean
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