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slew

[sloo]

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verb

simple past tense of slay.

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It has also bought a slew of iPods that will let students lead themselves on jaunts across the campus.

Politics could play an important role in the success of the proposed slew of exchange deals.

It can take heat measurements without having to strap a person to a slew of sensors.

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It has also bought a slew of iPods that will let students lead themselves on jaunts across the campus.

Politics could play an important role in the success of the proposed slew of exchange deals.

It can take heat measurements without having to strap a person to a slew of sensors.

Made up of long hydrocarbon chains, it can be broken down into a slew of useful substances and products.

He introduced us to a slew of local ingredients, including verdolagas.

I've noticed a slew of old arcade games finding their way to the iPhone.

The essay became a touchstone in the heyday of literary theory, reprinted in a slew of anthologies and cited copiously.

He pledged to restrain government spending, yet proposed a slew of new government programmes.

But there are a slew of lesser-known fathers in the animal kingdom with intensive parenting skills of their own.

There have been a whole slew of articles about the merits of eating bugs lately.

There's been a slew of fascinating weapons granted patents this week.

She'd been to a slew of reading/writing/learning specialists, without any success.

And in the past few days, a new slew of spending initiatives has been unveiled.

Continue past a slew of independent art galleries and witness the slow gentrification of a once ramshackle neighborhood.

Specimens flicker by in an entrancing crescendo until the video becomes a frenzied slew of images.

Mozilla's new web browser is smart, fast and user-friendly while offering a slew of advanced, customizable functions.

And then there are the slew of devil-in-the-details questions that arise from the content convergence.

Wachovia could find itself saddled with a slowing business and perhaps a slew of bad loans.

Last week, game publishers unleashed a slew of promo clips meant to surprise, invigorate and tantalize us.

The giveaway is an attempt to address a slew of issues in a single stroke.

The recent slew of third-quarter results suggests that the number of non-performing loans is approaching a peak.

Just the last few months have seen a slew of new product announcements.

The result a slew of lawsuits from students who have been removed because of these new polices.

Yet the past month has brought a slew of stories of government departments stomping all over that bright line.

High prices have also been eased by the slew of fuel-efficient cars that have come onto the market.

Last week saw a slew of robberies across the neighborhood, including several violent ones.

Despite a slew of financial-aid initiatives announced in the.

But a slew of new devices could help fill this security gap, including millimeter-wave cameras.

But a slew of free, open-source and hacker-friendly.

After further investigation she finds that a slew of young, healthy patients at her hospital have recently met the same fate.

Hank slowly and tenderly grilled a slew of those venison sausages until they were shiny, taut, and on the verge of bursting.

Suddenly a whole slew of problems familiar to the network security world appear.

From a slew of supermodels to unmarked after-parties, the cool quotient held.

It could easily lead to a slew of bank defaults-and corporate ones, too.

There's a slew of daily deals on individual games and packs as well as complete publisher packs at a pretty steep discount.

Fortuitously, legalization is the right policy for a slew of other reasons.

Showtime joins a slew of networks beginning to realize a viable way to viewers' hearts is through their computer screens.

It could easily lead to a slew of bank defaults-and corporate.

In the mid-1990s a slew of academic papers fretted about inadequate saving rates.

There's a whole slew of reasons younger people don't vote.

The new focus on adaptation shows itself in a slew of private- and public-sector projects.

As it turns out, people who rate a whole slew of movies at one time tend to be rating movies they saw a long time ago.

Norton also has a slew of academic editions of novels with extensive critical apparatus.

There has, however, also been a slew of departures further down the ranks.

This, he hopes, will give rise to a slew of programs that the authorities and others could consult.

The university, in the meantime, has appealed the penalties and hired a slew of athletics officials to clean up the mess.

When he learned that he would be forced to take a slew of prerequisites, though, he switched to history.

I've known a lot of people to get a slew of first round interviews and then get no further.

Nondorf says, different students will have a slew of different experiences.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Informal.

a large number or quantity: a whole slew of people.

Also, slue.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; < Irish sluagh crowd, throng, army, host

verb (used with object), verb (used without object), noun

slue¹.

noun U.S., Canadian.

slough¹ (def. 3).

verb (used with object)

to kill by violence.

to destroy; extinguish.

sley.

Informal. to impress strongly; overwhelm, especially by humor: Your jokes slay me.

Obsolete. to strike.

verb (used without object)

to kill or murder.

noun

sley.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English sleen, slayn, Old English slēan; cognate with Dutch slaan, German schlagen, Old Norse slā, Gothic slahan to strike, beat

Related forms

slay·a·ble, adjective

slay·er, noun

un·slay·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. murder, slaughter, massacre, butcher, assassinate. 2. annihilate, ruin.

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World English Dictionary

slew¹ (sluː)

—vb
	the past tense of slay

slew or esp (US) slue² (sluː)

—vb
1.	to twist or be twisted sideways, esp awkwardly: he slewed around in his chair
2.	nautical to cause (a mast) to rotate in its step or (of a mast) to rotate in its step

—n
3.	the act of slewing

[C18: of unknown origin]

slue or esp (US) slue²

—vb

—n

[C18: of unknown origin]

slew³ (sluː)

—n
	a variant spelling (esp US) of slough

slew or slue⁴ (sluː)

—n
	informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) a great number or amount; a lot

[C20: from Irish Gaelic sluagh; related to Old Irish slōg army]

slue or slue⁴

—n

[C20: from Irish Gaelic sluagh; related to Old Irish slōg army]

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Word Origin & History

slay

O.E. slean "to smite," also "to kill with a weapon" (class VI strong verb; past tense sloh, slog, pp. slagen), from P.Gmc. *slakhanan, from base *slog- "to hit" (cf. O.N., O.Fris. sla, Dan. slaa, M.Du. slaen, Du. slaan, O.H.G. slahan, Ger. schlagen, Goth. slahan "to strike"), from PIE base from base

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*slak- "to strike" (cf. M.Ir. pp. slactha "struck," slacc "sword"). Modern Ger. cognate schlagen maintains the original sense of "to strike." Meaning "overwhelm with delight" (1340) preserves some of the wider rangeof meanings that the word once had, including also "to strike a spark" (O.E.).

slew

"swampy place," 1708, N.Amer. variant of slough.

slew

"to turn, swing, twist," 1834, earlier slue (1769), a nautical word, of unknown origin. Slewed (1801) is old nautical slang for "drunk."

slew

"large number," 1839, from Ir. sluagh "a host, crowd, multitude."

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Slang Dictionary

slay definition

tv.
to overwhelm someone with one's performance or other excellence. : These jokes always slay the audience.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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slew definition

in.
to drink to intoxication. : They must have been slewing for an hour before one got up and left.
n.
and slews. a lot; lots. : I have a whole slew of old computer programs at home in a box somewhere.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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