pink slime
An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paperAn undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
Meaning
4 senses(uncountable)An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper.
ро́зовая слизьrózovaja slizʹ
(colloquial, derogatory, uncountable)A meat byproduct produced from scraps by heating and then treating with ammonia to produce a food additive.
rosa Schleim
ро́зовая слизьrózovaja slizʹ
(broadly, uncountable)Low-quality, mass-produced internet content, especially AI-generated.
(uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, slime. Slime which is pink.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Apparently first applied to food in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service microbiologApparently first applied to food in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.