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 Slime, verb. (Durham School).—1. To 'cut' games. Also (2) to lounge, to loaf: e.g., 'slimeing down town.'

3. (Felsted).—To sneak along; to do a slime = to take a crafty advantage.

4. (Harrow).—To go round quietly.

1898. Warner, Harrow School, 282. His house-beak slimed and twug him.

5. (Harrow).—To make 'drops' at rackets.

Sling, verb. (common).—A generic verb of action. Thus 1 (thieves') = to throw away or pass to a confederate; and 2 (general) to do easily; to sling a pot = to drink; to sling the booze = to stand treat; to sling a bob (a tanner—anything) = to give; to sling one's hook (bunk, or daniel) = to decamp; to sling a daddle = to shake hands; to sling a cat = to vomit; to sling a tinkler = to ring the bell; to sling one's juice (or jelly) = to masturbate; to sling a poem, article, or book = to write; to sling a hat = to wave one in applause; to sling the smash = to smuggle tobacco to prisoners; to sling about = to loaf; to sling ink (or a pen) = to write: hence inkslinger = a clerk or author; to sling a foot = to dance; to sling one in the eye = to blacken it; to kill a crow with an empty sling (Ray) = to gain without effort; to sling off (or patter or jaw) = to talk, to abuse, to insinuate: cf. slang; to sling a snot = to blow one's nose with the fingers: also to sling; to sling (or jerk) a part = to undertake a rôle: to sling a nasty part = to play so well that another would find it difficult to rival it; to sling round ON the loose = to act recklessly; sling yourself (let her sling!) = 'Bestir yourself.'

1835. Crockett, Tour down East, 37. We swung round the wharf; and when the captain told the people who I was, they slung their hats and gave three cheers.

1864. Browne ('Artemus Ward'), Works (1870), 277. The chaps that write for the Atlantic, Betsy, understand their bisness. They can sling ink, they can. Ibid., 305. You ask me, sir, to sling some ink for your paper.

1873. Greenwood, In Strange Company. He swore  that if we did not that instant sling our Daniels he would shy at us every heavenly article of crockery his apartment contained.

1884. Clemens, Huckleberry Finn. Teach singing sling a lecture sometimes.

1899. Whiteing, John St., vi. Blow me if I shan't be sold up, too, if I don't soon sling my 'ook. Ibid., xxi. If ever I ketch yer messin' abaht wi' any o' them, I'll sling him one in the eye.

Slinger, subs. (common).—A piece of bread floating in tea.

Slinging, adj. (colloquial).—Covering; indefatigable; effortless.

1857. Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1. 7. Two well-known runners started off at a long slinging trot across the fields.

Slink, subs. (common).—1. A sneak; (2) a greedy starveling (Halliwell); and (3) a cheat. Hence as adj. (or slinky) = (1) sneaky, mean; and 2 (America) = thin, lank (Bartlett).

1816. Scott, Antiquary, xv. He has na' settled his account wi' my gudeman the deacon for this twalmonth; he's but slink, I doubt.

18[?]. Chronicles of Pineville, 139 [Bartlett]. I despise a slink.