Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Southern U.S. Coleslaw.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete (Scotch) form of slow.
- n. Sliced cabbage, served cooked or uncooked as a salad.
Wiktionary
- n. Coleslaw.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sliced cabbage served as a salad, cooked or uncooked.
- p. p. of slee, to slay.
WordNet 3.0
- n. basically shredded cabbage
Examples
“The refreshing crunch of the slaw is the perfect complement to the creamy, spicy and smoky sweet potatoes and black beans.”
“The cole slaw is traditional; the sauce blends balsamic vinegar and maple syrup.”
Buttermilk fried chicken waffles – impossible wine pairing? | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The slaw is about to become one of my fallback slaws -- also quick, easy and delicious.”
“A 1/4 chicken with potato salad or cole slaw is only $4.25 ($4.75 if you want white meat), and a 1/2 chicken with potato salad or cole slaw comes in at an awesome $5.35.”
“The sharp clean taste of the raw fennel, which I love in a fennel slaw, is mellowed and transformed.”
“The slaw is good, but theother items need slaw too!”
“Looks like this slaw is right in line with all that mayo.”
“I like the coarseness of hand-chopped cabbage but my friends say phooey to that, and rely on shredded slaw from the supermarket.”
“Salvadoran food doesn’t mandate chili heat like so many Mexican dishes, so the spicy variation of curtido, the requisite side dish of cabbage slaw is surprising, and good.”
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2005 » September
“For a chef, being famous for a slaw should be a comparable indignity to a poet beloved for his punctuation, or a porn star celebrated for his line readings.”
The Huffington Post: Josh Ozersky: Susur Lee's Singapore Slaw
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slaw’.
reesetee Weirdnet again....
This is how my dad says "coleslaw"--as though using the entire word is just too exacting. Likewise, hot dogs are simply "dogs." Jul 29, 2011
yarb Same eggcorn here rolig! Jul 28, 2011
rolig Or even cold slaw (the eggcorn I grew up with), which of course must be served chilled. Jul 28, 2011
ruzuzu Well, it's not coleslaw. Jul 28, 2011
rolig So then what would elaborately shredded cabbage be? Jul 28, 2011
fbharjo Basically 'Who slew the slaw?' in other words. and who saw it if it is a mystory (sic) novel! Jul 27, 2011
ruzuzu Ha! I like the "basically shredded cabbage" definition from Wordnet. Jul 27, 2011