Definitions for slinks

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Spelling: [slingk]

IPA: /slɪŋk/

Slinks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in slinks (iklnss).

Definitions for slinks

noun

1. a prematurely born calf or other animal.

adjective

1. born prematurely:

verb (used with object)

1. (especially of cows) to bring forth (young) prematurely.

verb (used without object)

1. to move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame.
2. to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way.

Origin of slinks

before 1150; Middle English slynken (v.), Old English slincan to creep, crawl; cognate with Low German slinken, German schlinken

Examples for slinks

But he had one sentence more to hear before he was suffered to slink away.

Jones, ever the charmer, proceeds to slink behind the desk and begin fake-hammering away at the keyboard.

Can I slink by a side-road out of sight of my own intelligence?'

We began to slink outside, tentatively crossing the terrace.

He would have succeeded, nevertheless, had he not been so ready to slink off as soon as you looked at him.

He waited his opportunity to slink out of camp to the woods.

I believe my faith the higher, the better for mankind—Am I to slink away?

For a moment I was abashed and would have liked to slink out of sight.

You can't hope to slink past a cunning, wide-awake, evil brute like he was.

In an instant, before the villain could slink away, I had him by the neck.