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Slime

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slime
A dweeb's term for a sales person. See dweeb and suit.
slime
a mucous substance produced by various organisms, such as fish, slugs, and fungi
slime [slīm]
(engineering)
Liquid slurry of very fine solids with slime- or mudlike appearance. Also known as mud; pulp; sludge.
Slime 

a substance of microbial origin that forms aqueous viscid solutions. In many bacteria the cell wall is covered by a slime capsule that protects pathogenic microbes from phagocytes. The secretion of slime in a certain direction enables myx-obacteria to move. Slime often binds individual bacteria cells into colonies in the form of long ribbons and films.

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N. D. GABRIELIAN [23–1673–]
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The green slime on the rocks alone testified that life was not extinct.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
She did not know and would not have believed it, but beneath the layer of slime that covered her soul and seemed to her impenetrable, delicate young shoots of grass were already sprouting, which taking root would so cover with their living verdure the grief that weighed her down that it would soon no longer be seen or noticed.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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