Definition of "slime"

slime

/slaɪm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural slimes
1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
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  As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii]
2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
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  You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.
  1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] ‎, How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound, page 44
3. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”)
4. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  Quotations
  "What about that, you slime?"
  1980, Richard Louis Newmann, Siege of Orbitor, page xvii. 78
  If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.
  2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery
5. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
  Quotations
  This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.
  2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices‎, Gulf Professional Publishing, page 8
6. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  Quotations
  […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
7. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
  Quotations
  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 11:3
8. (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
verb
third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed
1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
  Quotations
  ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎
2. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
  Quotations
  If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.
  1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20
  You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.
  2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel
4. (intransitive, often figurative) To move like slime, like slimy things or like a slimy person.

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