slag
/slæɡ/
Dictionary
noun
- Waste material from a coal mine
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material
- Scoria associated with a volcano
- A coward
- (chiefly Cockney) a contemptible person, a scumbag
- A prostitute
- A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut
verb
- To produce slag
- To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point
- To reduce to slag
- (sometimes with "off") to talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone)
- To spit
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