slot
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Is slot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).Examples: "I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots."abbreviationalt-ofclippingespeciallyin-pluralinformal
2. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.Examples: "By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner."; "Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove."
3. (slang) The vagina.slang
4. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
5. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.Examples: "The game offers four save slots."
6. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
verb (English)
1. (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.Examples: "One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us.""; "Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'."; "They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head."BritishRhodesiaslang
2. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.Examples: "The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out."; "I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess."
3. (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.informal
noun (English)
1. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.Northern-EnglandScotland
2. (obsolete) A fort or castle.Examples: "Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.Northern-EnglandScotlandobsolete
2. (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.Examples: "to slot a door"UKdialectalobsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary