slime-ball

A form of slimeball — A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance such as mucus.

Meanings

nounslime-ball (plural slime-balls)

plural slime-balls

  1. alternativeAlternative form of slimeball.

    Nelson was a slime-ball, suck-ass, piece of shit that every good story truly needs.

    2011, Karl J. Stenstrom, “How It All Started”, in The Low Road, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 3
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    The slime-balls, which are whitish and have fluid gel-like consistency and in which the cercariae lie in free state, appear 120 to 150 days after the ingestion of eggs by the mollusc.

    1999, V. Kumar, “Dicrocoeliasis and Eurytremiasis”, in Trematode Infections and Diseases of Man and Animals, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers in collaboration with ITG Press, →ISBN, section 5.2.2.1 (Features of Life Cycle), page 223

    [T]he man held the view that ‘All car dealers are slime-balls’ which, naturally enough, led to anxiety whenever confronted by a car dealer. Once this belief was challenged as an over-generalization, the man’s anxiety when buying a car subsided [...].

    2001, Tim LeBon, “The Emotions and Reason”, in Wise Therapy: Philosophy for Counsellors (SPC [School of Psychotherapy and Counselling] Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, part 2 (The Emotions, Reason and the Meaning of Life), page 117
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