Usually means: By-products from metal smelting processes.
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  1. slags: Merriam-Webster
  2. slags: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slags: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slags: Vocabulary.com
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  6. slags: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slags: Wiktionary
  8. slags: Dictionary.com
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Definitions from Wiktionary (slag)

noun:  Waste material from a mine.
noun:  Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
noun:  Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
noun:  Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
noun:  Scoria associated with a volcano.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, derogatory, dated) A coward.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
verb:  (transitive) To produce slag.
verb:  (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce to slag.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
verb:  (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
verb:  (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
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