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SLUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does slut mean?
• SLUT (noun)
The noun SLUT has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: SLUT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dirty untidy woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
slattern; slovenly woman; slut; trollop
Hypernyms ("slut" is a kind of...):
pig; slob; sloven; slovenly person (a coarse obnoxious person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A woman adulterer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop
Hypernyms ("slut" is a kind of...):
adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)
Context examples
But the mother said, “No, no! you slut, you have no clothes, and cannot dance; you shall not go.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He was urging his son to marry my daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were a slut from off the streets.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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