Usually means: Viscous, gooey substance, often colorful.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word slime:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. slime: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slime: Merriam-Webster
  3. slime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slime: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slime: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slime, slime: Wordnik
  8. slime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slime: Wiktionary
  10. slime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slime: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slime: Dictionary.com
  14. slime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. slime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SLIME, Slime (Dragon Quest), Slime (band), Slime (biology), Slime (brand), Slime (disambiguation), Slime (series), Slime (substance), Slime (toy), Slime (video game), Slime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Slime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. slime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. slime: Rhymezone
  20. slime: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. slime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. slime: FreeDictionary.org
  23. slime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slime: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slime: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SLiME: Acronym Finder
  3. slime: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slime: Easton Bible
  2. Slime: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. SLIME: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. slime, slime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Slime: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Slime, The Slime: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SLIME: Power Engineering

(Note: See slimed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
noun:  Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”)
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
noun:  (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
noun:  (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
noun:  (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with slime.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
verb:  To carve (fish), removing the offal.
verb:  (intransitive, often figurative) To move like slime, like slimy things or like a slimy person.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To murder.

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