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   [slim] adjective, slim·mer, slim·mest, verb, slimmed, slim·ming, noun
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
8.
a garment size meant for a thin person.
Verb phrase
9.
slim down,
a.
to lose weight, especially intentionally.
b.
(of a business) to reduce operating expenses; economize.
Origin:
1650–60; < Dutch slim sly, (earlier) crooked (cognate with German schlimm bad, (earlier) crooked)

Related forms
slim·ly, adverb
slim·ness, noun
un·slim, adjective
un·slim·ly, adverb
un·slim·ness, noun
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un·slimmed, adjective
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Synonyms
1. thin. See slender. 3. insignificant, trifling, trivial, paltry.

Antonyms
1. fat. 3. considerable; abundant.

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slim (slɪm)
 
—adj , slimmer, slimmest
1.  small in width relative to height or length
2.  small in amount or quality: slim chances of success
 
—vb , slimmer, slimmest, slims, slimming, slimmed
3.  to make or become slim, esp by diets and exercise
4.  to reduce or decrease or cause to be reduced or decreased
 
[C17: from Dutch: crafty, from Middle Dutch slimp slanting; compare Old High German slimbi obliquity]
 
'slimly
 
—adv
 
'slimmer
 
—n
 
'slimness
 
—n

Slim1 (slɪm)
 
—n
the E African name for AIDS
 
[from its wasting effects]

Slim2 (slɪm)
 
—n
William Joseph, 1st Viscount. 1891--1970, British field marshal, who commanded (1943--45) the 14th Army in the reconquest of Burma (now called Myanmar) from the Japanese; governor general of Australia (1953--60)

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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
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thinness" is from 1925. Slimnastics first recorded 1967. Slim Jim attested from 1889 in sense of "very thin person."
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slim definition


  1. n.
    a tobacco cigarette. (The same as straight, as opposed to a marijuana cigarette, which may be thicker.) : I'll take a slim and a little mist, thanks.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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

jargon
A small, derivative change (e.g. to code).
(2003-05-13)

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