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How to pronounce “slag”
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Pronunciation guide for slag
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of slag with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
sift through all of this slag and create
- Definition summary
- Waste material from a mine.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce slag
Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
sift through all of this slag and create
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “slag”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- (UK, Ireland, derogatory, dated) A coward.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
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