muck vs slime

muck

noun
  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

slime

noun
  • Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. 

  • A monster having the form of a slimy blob. 

  • Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”) 

  • Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. 

  • A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. 

  • A friend; a homie. 

verb
  • To besmirch or disparage. 

  • To carve (fish), removing the offal. 

  • To coat with slime. 

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