Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking.
- adj. Informal Graceful, sinuous, and sleek: wore a slinky outfit to the party.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lank; lean; flaccid.
Wiktionary
- adj. furtive, stealthy or catlike
- adj. UK, dialect, dated thin; lank
- n. mathematics A three-dimensional curve — a spiral wound around a helix.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Prov. Eng. & U. S. Thin; lank.
Examples
“So, I want to see Scarlett Johansson and Halle Berry in slinky dresses, at a party singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,” and a late night motorcade back to the White House, with Bill Clinton giving a thumbs up.”
“So, I want to see Scarlett Johansson and Halle Berry in slinky dresses, at a party singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,””
“DREW slinky is supposed to look like barbed wire too i think”
Heaps of New Toy Story 3 Images, Including Concept Art and Posters | /Film
“There’s plenty of gore and swanky babes (Sheryl Lee filling the Lucy role) in slinky outfits, but the languorous plot is a bore.”
“Kurt Wilberding for the Wall Street Journal At Alice & Olivia's presentation, models wore minimalist dresses that recalled slinky 1970s dressing.”
“The so-called slinky loop system will supplement a boiler for the dining hall.”
“Give me your address and I will send you a 'slinky' to illustrate this point. by”
It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario
“This image here is what I was trying to convey to my son regarding cosmic energy by using the "slinky" model / ouroboros reference.”
“Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Thou art that: I got to thinking about "involution-evolution" and recalled my conversation with my son about my "slinky" idea and decided to do an image search on magnetic polarity.”
“I had a mental block on the word "slinky" for the past 24-hours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slinky’.
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Playthings and Toys
have fun!
battledore, beanbag, bicycle, Big Wheel, crayons, boomerang, cap gun, doll, kite, jigsaw puzzle, hula hoop, jack-in-the-box and 66 more...
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sage is the rage
fads: no matter (just madder) how short-lived is what matters
lava lamps, superballs, granny glasses, go-go boots, tie-dye, muscle cars, bean bag chairs, fondue pots, pop rocks, paisley whatever, waterbeds, hula hoops and 40 more...
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Inky
One of those nutso navel-fluff ruzuzu lists.
Inky, stinky, kinky, pinky, dinky, minky, tiddly-winky, slinky, clinky, ratfinky, kitchen-sinky, Hinky Dinky and 59 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for slinky.
yarb Can you guess me? A garment; not knitted, though, nor ornate,
not slinky skin-tight silk nor stretched-transparent tulle...
- Peter Reading, ?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981 Jun 29, 2008
treeseed A Slinky, or "Lazy-Spring," is a coil-shaped toy invented by mechanical engineer Richard James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Slinkies come in various sizes. The shape is a simple helix, or coil design, of a ribbon of material, originally metal. The Slinky can "walk" down stairs as the coils stretch and reform as gravity moves them down each step.
_Wikipedia
Jan 27, 2008