Usually means: Impress or excel remarkably well.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. slay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slay, slay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slay, slay: Wordnik
  7. slay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Slay, slay: Wiktionary
  9. slay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slay: Dictionary.com
  13. slay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slay (Hit the Floor), Slay (disambiguation), Slay (video game), Slay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slay: Rhymezone
  19. Slay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slay: Free Dictionary
  22. slay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. slay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. slay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slay [cambodian], slay: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See slain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (now literary) To kill; to murder.
verb:  (literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
verb:  (by extension, hyperbolic, colloquial) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
verb:  (slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
verb:  (slang, especially African-American Vernacular and LGBT, transitive, intransitive) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
verb:  (slang) To have sex with.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of sley [Reed (of a loom).]

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