Usually means: Offensive remark about someone's identity.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. slur: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slur: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slur, slur: Wordnik
  7. slur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slur: Wiktionary
  9. slur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slur: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slur: Dictionary.com
  13. slur (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slur: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slur (disambiguation), Slur (music), Slur (pejorative), Slur (phonology), Slur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slur: Rhymezone
  19. Slur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slur: Free Dictionary
  22. slur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. slur: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. slur: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slur: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLUR: Acronym Finder
  2. slur: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. slur, slur: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. slur: The Folk File
  3. slur: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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