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slimline, slim-line, a.|ˈslɪmlaɪn|
[f. slim a. + line n.2 14 b.]
a. Slim, narrow, gracefully thin in style or appearance. Occas. absol. as n.
1949Pender & Del Mar Electr. Engineers Handbk. (ed. 4) xv. 33 (headings) Technical data on fluorescent lamps... Standard line lamps... Slimline lamps. 1961Economist 28 Oct. 328/3 Stereophonic equipment, slim⁓line television, the second wireless set. 1964N.Y. Post 21 Oct. 18/2 (Advt.), Elegant long gowns..slinky slim⁓lines and ultra-feminine bouffants. 1971New Scientist 11 Feb. 323/1 Whenever I switched on the box I seemed to find pontificating doctors: podgy ones telling me to smoke cigars, slimline ones telling me to eat less. 1976C. Egleton State Visit viii. 82 ‘What if you wanted to speak to someone outside the airport?’ Mostyn pointed to a red slim-line. ‘Then I would use that one [sc. telephone],’ he said. 1978Times 10 Aug. 11/1, I put on my white crepe slimline dress.
b. fig. Exiguous, economical, stripped of unnecessary elaboration.
1973Listener 26 July 125/2 This slim-line plot is made the occasion for many a worthy animadversion on man's rape of the surface of the earth. 1975B. J. Enright in Barr & Line Ess. on Information & Libraries v. 66 A hesitant and doubtful response greeted Maurice Line's forecast of ‘lean muscular libraries’ to replace ‘fat bloated ones of the past’—the ‘new slimline library’ seemed a somewhat dubious proposition. 1980Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 1/8 The board has decided to concentrate further consultations and discussions with the unions and the work⁓force on a ‘slimline’ operation. |