SLIM CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slim chance mean? 

• SLIM CHANCE (noun)
  The noun SLIM CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. little or no chance of success

  Familiarity information: SLIM CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIM CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Little or no chance of success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fat chance; slim chance

Hypernyms ("slim chance" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)

 Context examples 

An atmosphere between 1 and 10 bars on LHS 3844b has been almost entirely ruled out as well, although the authors note there's a slim chance it could exist if the stellar and planetary properties were to meet some very specific and unlikely criteria.

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)