Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak: slunk away ashamed; a cat slinking through the grass toward its prey.
- v. To give birth to prematurely: The cow slinked its calf.
- n. An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely.
- adj. Born prematurely.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sneak; steal or move quietly: generally with off or away.
- n. A sneaking fellow.
- n. A greedy starveling.
- n. A cheat.
- To cast prematurely: said of a female boast.
- To miscarry; cast the young prematurely: said of a female boast.
- n. An animal, especially a calf, prematurely brought forth.
- n. The flesh of an animal prematurely brought forth; the veal of a calf killed immediately after being calved; bob-veal.
- n. A bastard child.
- n. A thin or poor and bony fish, especially such a mackerel. See mackerel.
- Produced prematurely: as, a slink calf.
- Immature and unfit for human food: as, slink veal; slink meat.
- Thin; slender; lean; starved and hungry: as, slink cattle.
- Sneaky; mean.
- n. A small piece of wet meadow-land.
- n. The skin of a still-born calf. Also slunk.
Wiktionary
- v. To sneak about furtively.
- v. To give birth to an animal prematurely.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
- v. To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
- v. To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts.
- adj. Produced prematurely.
- adj. Thin; lean.
- n. The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
- n. A thievish fellow; a sneak.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk stealthily
Etymologies
- Middle English slinken, from Old English slincan.
Examples
“I see a person what you may call slink away secret, like she'd done somethin 'to be' shamed of, 'twas that girl.”
“December 3rd, 2009 9: 34 am ET you announce, you don't announce and simply 'slink' away like a beaten dog”
“Dictionary.com had several meanings for the word "slink" but I like this one: "to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way".”
“Normally when you drop out of the presidential race, you kind of slink home and lay low.”
“And so she had to kind of slink back to the table.”
Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century
“It may also be mentioned here that the sight of a green, freshly-skinned hide, or a freshly-skinned carcass, will frequently cause cows to "slink" their calves.”
“It is an ascertained fact that young or "slink" veal very frequently gives rise to diarrhoea, more especially when that disease is epidemic.”
“Bush began the American "slink" out of the mess that his lies got us into.”
“Due to Coriolis forces it will "slink" from right to left in the northern hemisphere and from left to right in the southern hemisphere.”
“slink" in the rumba, I must admit that, but as a general work of art, it was beautiful.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slink’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 376 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( randomness, descriptive )creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 390 more...
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The Secret Garden
sickly, fretful, toddle, cross, stammer, manor, slink, grind, disdain, imploringly, wring, wailing and 30 more...
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Monosyllabic.
How much oomph can you fit in one of them words what don't use more than one sound byte.
morph, deign, pip, thwart, swerve, awe, clash, squall, shriek, prowl, throng, deft and 22 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...

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