slip (up) 1. in. to make an error. Don’t
slip up and pay this bill twice, please. I
slipped and gave the guy a 35 percent tip.
- and slip(-up)n. an error. That was
a silly slip-up. I’m sorry. That slip cost
us nearly $2,000.
slob[slab] n. a rude, fat, and unpleasant
person. What a slob! Comb your hair,
if you can get a comb through it! Why
doesn’t that slob go on a diet or something?
Anything!
slobbern. nonsense. (From the term for
saliva running out of the mouth.) I’ve
heard enough of your slobber. Can it!
Another hour of professorial slobber!
slob upin. to eat. What time do you peo-
ple slob up around here? Fred stopped
slobbing up long enough to change the
channel on the TV set.
sloppedmod. alcohol intoxicated. I’ve
never seen a senior citizen so inelegantly
slopped as was Walter. He was so
slopped, he could walk without his cane.
slop(s)n. bad beer; inferior liquor. Why
do we have to drink slops like this? Can’t
Tom afford to give his guests something de-
cent? Tom’s slop is better than water—
dishwater anyway.
slosh 1. n. beer; liquor. How about a
glass of slosh? No slosh for me. Just plain
water. 2. tv. & in. to drink liquor, in-
cluding beer; to drink to excess. Are
you going to slosh gin all night? I slosh
just because I like the taste.
sloshed (to the ears)mod. alcohol intox-
icated. Man, is he sloshed to the ears!
He is as sloshed as they come.
sloughed (up)Go to slewed.
slow burnn. the act of becoming angry
very slowly or being resentful for a long
period of time. (See also do a slow
burn.) His lips were pressed together
and he was angry, but just having a slow
burn. She wasn’t angry yet, but she was
doing a slow burn.
sludgeball[“sl@dZbal] n. a despicable and
repellent person. Mike is such a sludge-
ball! Why do you keep seeing him? He’s
no sludgeball; he’s eccentric.
sluedGo to slewed.sluff (off)in. to waste time; to goof off.
Watch him. He will sluff off if you don’t
keep after him. He won’t sluff. I know
I can trust him.slug 1. n. a drink of liquor; a shot of whis-
key. Have a slug of this stuff. It will—
I’m sorry to say, ma’am—put hair on your
chest. A couple more slugs and he was
ready to face the huge bull-necked ruffian.- n. a bullet. Barlowe sent a couple of
slugs into Rocko’s chest. Rocko crumpled
soundlessly. The medico dug out the
slugs like he had done it a thousand
times—which he probably had.
slugfest 1. n. a fight; a festival of slugging.
They went out in the alley for a real
slugfest. You wanna see a slugfest, just
stick around. 2. n. a festival of arguing.
The slugfest went on until both sides were
willing to compromise. The president
emerged from the slugfest with control of
the company still hers.sluggedmod. alcohol intoxicated. I’m
slugged—skunked, you know, corned. And
I think I am going to sick up. Ted real-
ized that he was slugged out of his mind,
but tried to get the bartender to serve him
another drink.slug it outtv. to fight something out; to
fight about something figuratively.
They finally went outside to slug it out.
We’ll just have to sit down in the confer-
ence room and slug it out.slumgullion[“sl@m”g@lj@n] n. a meat stew;
any food. What is this slumgullion
tonight? It looks like what we had last
night, only thinner. This is the best
slumgullion I’ve ever had—which puts it
right up there with dishwater.slummy[“sl@mi] mod. lousy. What a
slummy place! This place is not slummy!
That was a slummy trick to pull on her.slushed (up)mod. alcohol intoxicated.
I hate to come home slushed and wake up
everybody. I have to sing, you see. This
chick is so slushed that she doesn’t know
her name.slip (up)