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adjective
1.
slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
2.
poor or inferior: a slim chance; a slim excuse.
3.
small or inconsiderable; meager; scanty: a slim income.
4.
sized for the thinner than average person.
verb (used with object)
5.
to make slim.
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verb (used without object)
6.
to become slim.
7.
Chiefly British. to try to become more slender, especially by dieting.
noun
Verb phrase8.
a garment size meant for a thin person.
9.
slim down,
a.
to lose weight, especially intentionally.
b.
(of a business) to reduce operating expenses; economize.
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| Slim1 (slɪm) | |
| —n | |
| the E African name for AIDS | |
| [from its wasting effects] | |
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Word Origin & History
slim
1657, "thin, slight, slender," from Du. slim "bad, sly, clever," from M.Du. slim "bad, crooked," from P.Gmc. *slembaz "oblique, crooked" (cf. M.H.G. slimp "slanting, awry," Ger. schlimm "bad"). The verb meaning "to try to reduce one's weight" is recorded from 1930. Slimming "producing an appearance of
EXPANDthinness" is from 1925. Slimnastics first recorded 1967. Slim Jim attested from 1889 in sense of "very thin person."
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
SLIM definition
A VLSI language for translating DFA's into circuits. J.L. Hennessy, "SLIM: A Simulation and Implementation Language for VLSI Microcode", Lambda, Apr 1981, pp.20-28.
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slim definition
jargonA small, derivative change (e.g. to code).
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