Usually means: Offensive terms targeting specific groups.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word slurs:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. slurs: Merriam-Webster
  2. slurs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slurs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. slurs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Slurs, slurs: Wordnik
  6. slurs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slurs: Wiktionary
  8. slurs: Dictionary.com
  9. slurs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. slurs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slurs: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slurs: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SLURS: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slur)

noun:  An insult or slight.
noun:  An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
noun:  A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
noun:  An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
noun:  Any instance of separate things gradually blending together, such as heartbeats in some medical disorders.
noun:  (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
noun:  (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
verb:  To insult or slight.
verb:  To run together; to articulate poorly.
verb:  (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
verb:  To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
verb:  To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
verb:  To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
verb:  (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
noun:  In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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