SLINK (slunk)

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Irregular inflected form: slunk   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slink mean? 

• SLINK (verb)
  The verb SLINK has 1 sense:

1. walk stealthily

  Familiarity information: SLINK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLINK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slink    ... he / she / it slinks   
Past simple: slunk   
Past participle: slunk   
-ing form: slinking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk stealthily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey

Hypernyms (to "slink" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children slink to the playground

 Context examples 

For the first few hours he was content with slinking around and watching them from a safe distance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Woodley must be staying in the neighbourhood, for he did not sleep here, and yet I caught a glimpse of him again this morning, slinking about in the shrubbery.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I simply could not slink back with nothing done.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bowed with the look of a man who is utterly crushed, and slunk past me without a word.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why should I slink away without having carried out my commission, and without the payment which was my due?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then, as we all slunk back to our places, Gray, he said, I'll put your name in the log; you've stood by your duty like a seaman.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Often their yelps drifted across the desolation, and once he saw three of them slinking away before his path.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At sight of Alleyne they slunk past him with somewhat of a shame-faced air, and springing upon their horses galloped after their party.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Furtively, instinctively, I slunk back behind the table and drew and cocked my revolver.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mr. Dick shook his head, as utterly renouncing the suggestion; and having replied a great many times, and with great confidence, No beggar, no beggar, no beggar, sir! went on to say, that from his window he had afterwards, and late at night, seen my aunt give this person money outside the garden rails in the moonlight, who then slunk away—into the ground again, as he thought probable—and was seen no more: while my aunt came hurriedly and secretly back into the house, and had, even that morning, been quite different from her usual self; which preyed on Mr. Dick's mind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)