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slim
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What does slim mean?
adjective
- Slender in an attractive way.
- Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
- Long and narrow.
More meanings (14)
adjective
- Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
- Very small, tiny.
- Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
- (obsolete) Sly, crafty.
noun
- A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
- A potato farl.
- AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
- (slang) Cocaine.
- Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”)
- Acronym of short linear motif.
verb
- To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
- To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A male given name.
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IPA pronunciation
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But she had learned to love this slim, gray-eyed girl with an affection all the deeper and stronger from its very undemonstrativeness.
Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the “interesting” paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and read a “poem.”
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She cowered against the desk by the window, a slim figure in a clinging silk gown, which alone explained Mrs. Dolan's distrust.
Natásha rose slowly and carefully, crossed herself, and stepped cautiously on the cold and dirty floor with her slim, supple, bare feet.
This one, slim volume expresses with elegant and passionate simplicity all of the basic beliefs of the organic gardening and farming movement.