slunk

plural slunks

1. An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.

   Calf heads were tanned from yearling calves less than a year in age. Slunk skins were tanned from unborn calfskins which, gruesome as it sounds, were often by products of the cow slaughtering process.

   2001, ed. Rob Cook, The Making of a Drum Company, Hal Leonard, published 2001, page 53

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   Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition.)

   1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press

plural slunks

1. UKdialectalA slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)

   […] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […]

   , Gordon Kendal, Gavin Douglas's Translation of 'The Aeneid' (1513), page 580

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   Amang the harbour's sludge and mud; They row'd thegither in the slunk; Their heads were up, their bodies sunk; What wi' the slusch they ate and drunk, […]

   1827, William Tennant, Papistry Storm'd: Or, The Dingin' Down O' the Cathedral : Ane Poem, in Sax Sangs, page 88

   He made the road, and since it was made there was never anything done to it except when men were carting turf and then they would fill in a "slunk." You might say now it is no road.

   1907, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 202

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of slink

   “Oh, no. Where are they going? That was such a sneaky walk.” “They slunk.” “They did. Oh, my God, we're dead.”

   2026 May 17, Jon Schroeder, “Stuck in the Middle with Hu(go)” (11:01 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 16, episode 14, spoken by Hugo (Sam Seder)