slim adj

1 being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" [syn: slender, slight]

2 small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender] v : take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain] [also: slimmest, slimmer]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪm

Adjective

slim

1. Slender; thin in an attractive way.

Synonyms

Translations

Noun

slim

1. Cocaine; white lady.

Verb

1. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

Translations

Danish

Noun

slim

1. slime
2. mucus

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

slim (alternative form: slimme, comparative: slimmer, superlative: slimst)

1. smart, intelligent, wise

See also

• German: schlim (false friend)

Slim may refer to:

• Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891 – 1970), a British military commander and 13th Governor-General of Australia
• Slim (movie), a 1937 film adaptation of the William Wister Haines novel starring Henry Fonda
• Slim (band), a musical group from Oakland, California
• Carlos Slim Helú, the second richest man in the world
• Slim Gaillard, half of the "Slim & Slam" partnership
• Guitar Slim, a famous musician
• Slim Shady, rapper also known as Eminem
• Slim, a 1934 novel by William Wister Haines
• Slim Pickens (1919-1983), American actor and cowboy
• Slim Whitman, a country musician
• Slim Moon, record producer and musician
• SLiM, a desktop-independent graphical login manager
• slim, short linear motif
• SLIM is a slitless spectroscopy simulator programme

Slim may also refer to:

• AIDS, often called "slim", especially in Africa, because of the wasting it produces in untreated victims.

SLIM may refer to:

• SLIM theory of language

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