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1. (noun) The impurities which result and are separated out when melting a metal or refining it from its ore; also, vitrified cinders.
2. (noun) The scoria of a volcano.
3. (noun, UK, Australian, New Zealand, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex. Meaning slut.
4. (noun) A hard aggregate that is left as a residue from blast furnaces, which may be used as a surfacing material.
5. (verb, transitive) To make slag.
6. (verb, transitive) To talk badly about someone; to denigrate someone.
7. (Dutch, noun) blow, knock
8. (Dutch, noun) battle
9. (Dutch, noun) beat, stroke, pulsation
10. (Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, noun) hit; punch
11. (Faroese, noun, medicine) stroke
12. (Faroese, Norwegian, noun) battle between to armies, navies or air forces
13. (Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, noun) kind; sort
14. (Faroese, noun, biology, taxonomy) species
15. (Norwegian, noun) stroke (medical)
16. (Swedish, noun) the hit of a ball by a bat or a racket
17. (Swedish, noun) battle between two armies, navies or air forces
18. (Swedish, noun) stroke; the striking of a clock
19. (Swedish, noun) stroke; the time when a clock strikes
20. (Swedish, noun, medicine) stroke; a loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
21. (Swedish, noun) while; moment; a short period of time
22. (Swedish, noun) A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.

From Swedish slagg, or Middle Low German slacke, whence German Schlacke; originally, perhaps, the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering.

• IPA: /slæg/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

slag (plural slags)

1. The impurities which result and are separated out when melting a metal or refining it from its ore; also, vitrified cinders.
2. The scoria of a volcano.
3. (UK, Australian, New Zealand, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex. Meaning slut.
4. A hard aggregate that is left as a residue from blast furnaces, which may be used as a surfacing material.

• (impurities from a metal): dross, recrement
• (loose woman): see WikiSaurus:promiscuous woman

• slaggy

to slag (third-person singular simple present slags, present participle slagging, simple past and past participle slagged)

1. (transitive) To make slag.
2. (transitive) To talk badly about someone; to denigrate someone.

• slag off - (talk insultingly to or about someone)
• slag heap - (a mound of pit debris)

• slag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “slag” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

• gals
• lags

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slag m. (plural slagen, diminutive slagje, diminutive plural slagjes)

1. blow, knock
2. battle
3. beat, stroke, pulsation

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slag n.

1. hit; punch
2. (medicine) stroke
3. battle between to armies, navies or air forces
4. kind; sort
5. (biology, taxonomy) species

slag n. (definite singular slaget; indefinite plural slag; definite plural slaga/slagene)

1. hit; punch
2. stroke (medical)
3. battle between to armies, navies or air forces
4. kind; sort

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slag n.

1. hit; punch
2. the hit of a ball by a bat or a racket
3. battle between two armies, navies or air forces
4. stroke; the striking of a clock

   Klockan slog just tre slag = The clock just struck three strokes

5. stroke; the time when a clock strikes

   Han kom precis på slaget midnatt = He came on the stroke of midnight

6. (medicine) stroke; a loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
7. kind; sort

   En fågel av ett ovanligt slag = A bird of an unusual kind

8. while; moment; a short period of time

   Kom hit ett slag! = Come here a minute!

9. A fold on the legs of a pair of trousers, where about an inch of the leg is folded upwards.

• (battle): fältslag
• (kind): sort
• (moment): stund

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