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▸ 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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