Slag
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English
Noun
Slag (plural Slags)- The impurities which result and are separated out when melting a metal or refining it from its ore; also, vitrified cinders.
- The scoria of a volcano.
- (UK, Australian, New Zealand, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex. Meaning slut.
- A hard aggregate that is left as a residue from blast furnaces, which may be used as a surfacing material.
Synonyms
- (impurities from a metal): dross, recrement
- (loose woman): see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
Derived terms
Verb
Slag (third-person singular simple present slags, present participle slagging, simple past and past participle slagged)
- (transitive) To make slag.
- (transitive)used with "off", (slag off) To talk badly about someone; to denigrate someone.
Thesaurus
alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, bones, brand, calx, carbon, chaff, charcoal, cinder, clinker, coal, coke, coom, culm, deadwood, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, fume, garbage, gash, grounds, hogwash, husks, lava, leavings, lees, loess, moraine, offal, offscourings, offscum, orts, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, rags, raspings, reek, refuse, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack, slop, slops, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, stubble, sublimate, sullage, sweepings, swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds
Pronunciation
- IPA: /slæɡ/
- Rhymes: -æɡ
