slim
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettesA type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
» My uncle is slim, but my aunt is fat.
Mein Onkel ist schlank, aber meine Tante ist dick.
Мой дядя худой, а тётя — толстая.
Мій дядько худорлявий, а моя тітка гладка.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
I only smoke slims.
(Ireland, countable, regional, uncountable)A potato farl.
(Africa, East, uncountable)AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
(slang, uncountable)Cocaine.
Examples
111 sentencesMy uncle is slim, but my aunt is fat.
Мій дядько худорлявий, а моя тітка гладка. — deniko
ruМой дядя худой, а тётя — толстая. — sharptoothed
deMein Onkel ist schlank, aber meine Tante ist dick. — MUIRIEL
Tom is very slim.
Том дуже худорлявий. — deniko
deTom ist sehr schlank. — wolfgangth
I'm trying to slim down.
Я намагаюся стати стрункішим. — deniko
There's a slim chance that'll work.
My chances of winning are slim.
ruМои шансы на победу невысоки. — Wezel
Origin
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“badBorrowing 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”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
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Forms
plural: slimsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
6 patterns- a slim chance
- slim chance
- slim chance that
- there's a slim
- only a slim
- is very slim