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Slur
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slur
(noun)
- Mud; especially, thin, washy mud.
(verb)
- To smear; soil by smearing with something; sully; contaminate; pollute; tarnish: often with over.
- To disparage by insinuation or innuendo; depreciate; calumniate; traduce; asperse; speak slightingly of, as in a racial slur.
- To pass lightly (over or through); treat lightly or slightingly; make little of: commonly with over.
- To cheat, originally by slipping or sliding a die in a particular way: an old gambling term; hence, to trick or cheat in general.
- To do (anything) in a careless manner; render obscure or indistinct by running together, as words in speaking.
- In music, to sing (two or more tones) to a single syllable or perform in a legato manner.
- In printing, to blur or double, as an impression from type, mackle.
- To slide; be moved or dragged along in a shuffling, negligent way.
- To practice cheating by slipping a die out of the box so as not to let it turn; hence, to cheat in any way.
- In music, to apply a slur to two or more notes.