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Slimeball
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Meaning
Noun
●
In Biology:
A round
lump
made up
of or
coated
with
slime
or a
slime
-like
substance
such as mucus.
●
In Biology & Helminthology:
A round
lump
made up
of or
coated
with
slime
or a
slime
-like
substance
such as mucus.
A mucus-coated
lump
containing
the
cercariae
(“parasitic
larvae
”) of a
liver fluke
(of the
phylum
Platyhelminthes).
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In American English:
A person who is
regarded
as
slimy
(that is,
sneaky
or
underhanded
) or otherwise undesirable.
●
In People:
2010, John Grisham, The Confession: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; Bantam Books
trade paperback
edition
, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN,
page
342: He
cursed
Flak, then
watched
with
horror
as the
slimeball
explained
to the world
exactly
how he, Kerber, had
obtained
the
confession
.
2010, John Grisham, The Confession: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; Bantam Books
trade paperback
edition
, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN,
page
342
He
cursed
Flak, then
watched
with
horror
as the
slimeball
explained
to the world
exactly
how he, Kerber, had
obtained
the confession.
●
2012, Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN,
page
102: He said it would
be good for
me,
going to
Grimsby; my
hideous
,
horrible
, sewer-minded, greeneyed
slimeball
of a
two-faced
,
felonious
bastard
of an uncle.
2012, Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN,
page
102
He said it would
be good for
me,
going to
Grimsby; my
hideous
,
horrible
, sewer-minded, greeneyed
slimeball
of a
two-faced
,
felonious
bastard
of an uncle.
●
In People:
26 March 2018, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club,
archived
from the
original
on 2018-05-31: Meanwhile, the film's
villain
,
played
by Ben Mendelsohn, is a
bigwig
slimeball
who
wants
to
monopolize
and
monetize
The Oasis through
excessive
pop-up
ads
. His
true crime
, though, is that
he's
a total
noob
who doesn't know his stuff.
26 March 2018, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club,
archived
from the
original
on 2018-05-31
Meanwhile, the film's
villain
,
played
by Ben Mendelsohn, is a
bigwig
slimeball
who
wants
to
monopolize
and
monetize
The Oasis through
excessive
pop-up
ads
. His
true crime
, though, is that
he's
a total
noob
who doesn't know his stuff.
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