slim
Slender; thin.
Adjective 3 meanings
Slender; thin.
“Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.”
Very small, tiny.
“I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.”
Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
“A slimly-shod lad;”
Noun 3 meanings
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
“I only smoke slims.”
A potato farl.
AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
Verb 2 meanings
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
Etymology
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”).
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SLIM at a glance
SLIM has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (S 1 + L 1 + I 1 + M 3) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,519 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with slim
All rhymes- PRELIM10
- FLIM9
- KILIM11
- GLIM7
- BAALIM10
- PLIM8
- KELIM11
- KHILIM15
- MASHLIM14
- MOHALIM14
- MOHELIM14
- SCLIM9
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