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Meanings of slime in English
Synonyms
Examples for "muck"
Examples for "muck"
1
I went from playing muck-around-footie to training intensely six days a week.
2
The veriest muck-worm in the market-place spat out at sight of him.
3
They are the mushroom growth of the muck-heap of the new civilization.
4
The political boss is not the unscrupulous ogre that the muck-rakers picture.
5
That they travel a great distance to gather a hot brown muck.
1
At least I could hear again; Gretchen's purple goo had worked well.
2
It had the best puzzles, the best lines, you had the goo.
3
But the toxic goo is also a hallucinogen, albeit a dangerous one.
4
Within minutes, it was nothing more than a pool of greenish goo.
5
Brown goo dribbled out of this new appendage in a constant stream.
1
Also written ooze, Mrs Quirk's word is still common in rural Scotland.
2
The icy waters, the ooze and mud of the river seemed preferable.
3
Mr Livingstone's statements and unapologetic stances ooze contempt for the Jewish community.
4
Though the ooze was soft the bird did not sink into it.
5
My fist sank through the shell; a cold, sticky ooze spurted out.
1
Moreover, different hydrogenotrophic methanogens were found specifically to the different sludge sources.
2
Investment banks in particular look eager to scoop up the mortgage sludge.
3
Given the choice between toxic mud and sand, they picked the sludge.
4
Treated sludge is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates.
5
But war zones are only one application for the bacteria-based sludge removers.
1
Overall, however, this yo-yos between bland and big mouthfuls of unpalatable gunk.
2
You look at this and it is just the most unappetising gunk.
3
The green gunk was pushing up near the top of the bucket.
4
The first thing he pulled out was a lump of white gunk.
5
Nice foliage, lovely wildlife, great poetry etc, pity about the gunk.
1
So fill up some paintballs with bomb-detecting goop and fire away, right?
2
Clarence examined the green goop falling in clumps and nodded his approval.
3
In the towers, the heavy bottoms would cake up into solid goop.
4
Aloe barbadensis A fancy name for the goop inside an aloe leaf.
5
She smeared the Icy Hot goop from her hand onto his.
1
Fury's talk of gook ears and land mines had brought it on.
2
It's a good thing I kind of understand the technical gobbledy- gook.
3
He looked at the bowl of meatball gook and scratched his head.
4
Your fuel filter was full of gook from a filthy gas tank.
5
Cornelius had just caught a whiff of gook Camels, those bitter NVA cigarettes.
1
And then you're stuck down inside all that guck, and it's awful.
2
My palm had a huge red welt, oozing and smoking with yellow guck.
3
She thought of the green guck with a shudder.
4
I made a sound like "Guck," and made myself close my eyes tight.
5
Picture the cavemen, he'd say, firing away, and the tyrannosauruses all gucked up in the oil puddles.
Usage of slime in English
1
Detractors had been hurling slime since the moment the president took office.
2
The river has only black depths where one rots in the slime.
3
The river monsters along the river's marge lay dormant in the slime.
4
Hagfish are also known as slime eels, thought they are not eels.
5
In fact that slime ball made Wallace look like Martin Luther King.
6
Guedon preferred not to give details of his industrial slime extraction process.
7
The slime it had left on the side of the boat stank.
8
For the past decade, Adamatzky researched the computational potential of slime molds.
9
The Englishman's arms shot into the slime with the regularity of pistons.
10
But she has tried her hand at glow-in-the-dark slime, with some success.
11
And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:
12
I made him give up what you needed to nail this slime.
13
He looked better than he had in ages, even with the slime.
14
This bubbling slime is almost as diversely tinted as the pools themselves.
15
Some of the street slime like to talk it up that way.
16
But in this salon in Tokyo, snail slime is the latest trend.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common