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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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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
verb (used without object)
6.
to become slim.
7.
Chiefly British. to try to become more slender, especially by dieting.
noun
Verb phrases 8.
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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slim (slɪm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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
thinness" is from 1925. Slimnastics first recorded 1967. Slim Jim attested from 1889 in sense of "very thin person."
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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