slime n.
1. semen; thus slimey adj.
![]() | Works of Rochester (1721) 83: Full gorged, at another Time, / With a vast Meal of nasty Slime, / Which your devouring Cunt had drawn / From Porters Backs, and Footmens Brawn. | ‘A Ramble in St. James’s Park’ in|
![]() | Cythera’s Hymnal 26: They hardly had the time to wipe away the slime. | |
![]() | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 121: Tickle my tits and belly, / Smell my slimey slough. | |
![]() | in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 45: Held a little slick thing covered with slime. | |
![]() | True Confessions 8: Immortality, a white slime. | |
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![]() | in Law Unto Themselves 112: My part was just a little bit of slime [...] The white stuff a man leaks in a woman, sir. | |
![]() | Ten Storey Love Song 254: Pulling a few tissues out of the Kleenex tub to mop up Johnnie’s slime from inside her. |
2. (Aus.) flattery, ingratiation.
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 22/1: Insensate setter of discordant rhyme, / To hackneyed bathos or lickspittle slime, / Whose slaughtered subjects find a verbal hearse / Toward the charnel chamber of thy verse – / Whose namby-pamby similes are spread / As Chinese cess stuff on a cabbage bed. | |
![]() | Bird o’ Freedom 8 Jan. 5/3: The servants call him ‘Old Slime’. |
3. an extremely unpleasant person [note the character Chevy Slime in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4)].
![]() | CUSS 198: Slime A small or insignificant person. | et al.|
![]() | New Centurions 228: ‘I‘d like to work books. Get me away from all these slimes you have to bust at night’. | |
![]() | Legionnaire 265: He is liquid slime as far as I am concerned . | |
![]() | Foxes (1980) 65: ‘Anything you want, baby?’ he called. ‘Not from you, slime,’ Annie called back. | |
![]() | A-Team 2 (1984) 54: Just like these slimes to try and nail someone in the back. | |
![]() | Inside 83: I wondered how many men had been led to evil ways by mixing with slime like Jimmy Baker. |
4. (US black) a friend.
![]() | 🎵 Ayo, what up, slime? | ‘Stick Up’|
![]() | 🎵 I call up my slime, I need a kilo tonight. | ‘Hold Me Back’|
![]() | Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Slime - close friend. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
In compounds
1. (US) a highly objectionable or offensive person.
![]() | Blue Knight 281: Fired for pushing a slimeball down the fire escape. | |
![]() | Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 66: For the next couple of weeks Prankster Frank disposed of seven slime-mouths by booking them drunk at the county jail. | |
![]() | Bonfire of the Vanities 410: I’m just saying he’s a slimeball and we ought to be careful. | |
![]() | (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 354: He was a real gentleman [...] after some of the slimeballs she had met. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 9 July 12: Jerry called him ‘a lying, cheating, no-good slimeball’. | |
![]() | Mad mag. July 12: We’ll nail those slimebags. | |
![]() | Black Swan Green 104: Isaac Pye, the landlord, he’s a total slimeball. | |
![]() | (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 196: Sex joints [...] where the slimeballs drop a quarter in the slot and jerk off. | |
![]() | Dead Man’s Trousers [27]: Once Slimeball sees that you are the fucking man [...] he starts to treat you with a bit more r-e-s-p-e-c-t. | |
![]() | Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 39: A taxi driven by Dave’s pissy brother [...] of all possible slimeballs. | |
![]() | Empty Wigs (t/s) 847: Remember? The guy who forged evidence in the Loomis Nikolić case... Cosmo slimeball... of course he got away with it. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
![]() | Indep. Rev. 11 Feb. 19: The usual gang must rescue Woody the cowboy from a slimeball toy dealer. | |
![]() | 🌐 All turn in great performances, but especially Tabor as the finest crudhead slimeball woman-hater ever portrayed. | ‘Rev. of I Spit On Your Grave’ at JoeBobBriggs.com|
![]() | Guardian 25 Jan. 2/2: This was a testosterone-fuelled, dick-swinging [...] slimeball night out [...] abusing women to big-up male entitlement. | |
![]() | Empty Wigs (t/s) 777: [Her phone is] always getting stolen or the money used up by slimebag thieving fellow pupils. |
(US campus) a highly objectionable or offensive person; also atrib.
![]() | Honolulu Advertiser (HI) 13 Mar. B2/2: The Hart plane has several dozen minor slimebucket elected officials clinging to the fuselage by their fingernails. | |
![]() | Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 178: That’s your problem, you rotten little slime bucket! | |
![]() | Sl. and Sociability 50: Evaluative terms are plentiful, as slang tends to judge rather than to define (slimebucket ‘objectionable person’, geek ‘one who studies excessively’ jerk ‘socially inept person’). | |
![]() | Midnight Lightning 41: She gave birth while shacked up with a reported slimebucket. | |
![]() | Drawing Dead [ebook] [I] set up a meet with a legit pervert slimebucket [...] The whole thing stunk. |