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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dialectal plural of sloe. Also slans.

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Examples

  • By telepathic mutant "slan" who control them at a distance?

    Roberson's Book Report Chris Roberson 2008

  • Is "slan" the next stage of human evolution ... or a type of elvish waybread?

    Blogest tobiasbuckell 2006

  • So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.

    Blogest tobiasbuckell 2006

  • So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.

    ccfinlay: Blogest ccfinlay 2006

  • Is "slan" the next stage of human evolution ... or a type of elvish waybread?

    ccfinlay: Blogest ccfinlay 2006

  • Brazil, Australia and Maui are all hot spots for kiters, the slan g for kiteboarders.

    The Sky's the Limit! A.J. Baime 2010

  • When the head of the human secret police discovers that the President is actually a slan, arresting him and Jommy Cross gives the tendrilless slan group freedom to act unopposed.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • A "poetry slan," to be confused with "poetry slam," is a poetry reading by sf folks, of course.

    Chapter 4! yuki_onna 2009

  • When the head of the human secret police discovers that the President is actually a slan, arresting him and Jommy Cross gives the tendrilless slan group freedom to act unopposed.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Abortion providers, always a small and beleaguered group, have grown more apprehensive since the murders of Britton and David Gunn, the abortion doctor slan in Pensacola last year.

    Abortion And The Fight For God 2008

  • In van Vogt’s story, the regular people of Earth persecute “slans,” genetically advanced humans.

    The Self-Styled Sci-Fi Supermen of the 1940s | JSTOR Daily Livia Gershon 2020

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