Definition of slink in English:

slink

verbslunk slɪŋkslɪŋk

1no object, with adverbial of direction Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner.
the fox came slinking through the bracken
Example sentencesExamples
- He moves after her swiftly, his arms slinking around her waist and hands firmly clamping to the spot where the knife is… I don't want to die until I do this.
- The cat sat still until the basket came to rest against the rocky bank, then she slowly raised her front paw and slunk forward, one slow careful step at a time.
- And with that she was gone, gliding out the door like a cat slinking away after a successful kill.
- No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed.
- I proceeded to stealthily slink through the hallways, lurk in the cafeteria, the library, the football field, the gym.
- She quietly opened it up and slunk through, with Daniel on her tail.
- Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard.
- She silently made her way past the bookshelves to Dymion's room, slinking along quietly.
- Closing her door I slunk around, slipping inside the car myself.
- They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion.
- They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death.
- She hid behind a rock and quietly slunk around the pond, seeking refuge behind rocks and boulders.
- She turned to face him again as he took a step forward, slinking forward like a wolf toward cornered prey.
- Something moved there now, no longer slinking but charging towards him through the sea of fire that the field had become.
- Nine missions (plus training) find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe.
- Obeying his orders, the pack stopped fighting and slunk in the woods, disappearing behind the trees.
- We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved.
- I pretended not to hear her, and she slunk down the steps a minute later.
- He slunk stealthily to the captain's cabin where the girl sat weeping on the bed, awaiting her terrible fate.
- Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway.
Synonyms
slip, move lightly, move quietly, steal
1. 1.1 Come or go unobtrusively or furtively.
  all the staff have slunk off home
  Example sentencesExamples
  I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner.
  I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar.
  We slink in quietly and go to the registration desk.
  According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds.
  We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering.
  Pulling this over her golden brown locks, she proceeded to slink off in the darkest shadows as stealthily and silently as a cat.
  They don't know people who've left their departments, or any departments, who have mostly slunk out.
  They quietly left the room and slunk down the hall.
  The previous scientist took a step backward, then slunk out of the door, ashamed.
  I followed him back into the woods, slinking away as only a true hunter could.
  He slunk away after the debate without taking one question from the media.
  I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps.
  About $15 billion in foreign exchange has slunk offshore.
  He grumbled under his breath and slunk back a few steps.
  He could not bear to listen and slunk out of the room.
  She had hoped he might slink quietly away to count his losses.
  They all, one by one, dropped their stones and slunk away.
  As she slunk away in deep embarrassment the clerk mouthed the words ‘thank you’ to us all.
  After flunking early out of university, he slunk home to Edinburgh and ‘on a whim’ got a job as a stagehand.
  He bought her a house in Cork Street, and her husband slunk away.
  Synonyms
  creep, sneak, steal, slip, slide, sidle, edge, move furtively, tiptoe, pussyfoot, pad
  skulk, lurk
  prowl

noun slɪŋkslɪŋk

A slinking movement or walk.
she moved with a sensuous slink
Example sentencesExamples
- The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink.
- All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun.
- For a split second there was a flashback to that night she'd first come into my room: that predatory slink, as fluid as oil on water, and seeing her now was a horrible reminder of what'd happened to her.
- In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye.
- She moved with a slink that was more feline than Piebald's walk.
- Her top 10 single is a grown-up version of an old tune, with heartfelt strums replacing the slink of old.
- When in the bar scene she emerges from her self-imposed isolation, her slink and swagger is perfect.
- Carey's excellent current album, turns the clock back to the halcyon days of laser-guided digital slink.

Origin

Old English slincan 'crawl, creep'; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German slinken 'subside, sink'.

snake from Old English:
Snakes take their name from the fact that they have no legs and crawl along the ground. The ancestor of snake is an ancient Germanic word that meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Serpent (Middle English) has a similar origin—it comes from Latin serpere, which also meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Yet another word with this original sense was Old English slink. You can describe a treacherous person as a snake in the grass, with the idea of a lurking danger. Snakes are associated with treachery not only in Genesis but in the 6th century bc fables of the Greek storyteller Aesop. In one of his stories a man finds a snake frozen with cold and puts it close to his chest to warm it up. As soon as the snake revives it bites him (see also viper). Before the 17th century the equivalent phrase had featured toads, which were at one time thought to be poisonous—a treacherous person was called a pad in the straw (pad is an old dialect word for a toad). The current expression may have originated from a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The children's game Snakes and Ladders, called in the USA Chutes and Ladders, was first played at the end of the 19th century. It may be based on an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patamu, which was used to teach children about the Hindu religion—the good squares allowed a player to go to a higher level of life, whereas the evil ‘snakes’ sent them back through reincarnation to lower tiers of life.

Rhymes

bethink, blink, brink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, Frink, gink, ink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, pink, plink, prink, rink, shrink, sink, skink, stink, sync, think, wink, zinc

Definition of slink in US English:

slink

verbsliNGkslɪŋk

1no object, with adverbial of direction Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner.
the fox came slinking through the woods
Example sentencesExamples
- Obeying his orders, the pack stopped fighting and slunk in the woods, disappearing behind the trees.
- She hid behind a rock and quietly slunk around the pond, seeking refuge behind rocks and boulders.
- No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed.
- Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway.
- She quietly opened it up and slunk through, with Daniel on her tail.
- I pretended not to hear her, and she slunk down the steps a minute later.
- The cat sat still until the basket came to rest against the rocky bank, then she slowly raised her front paw and slunk forward, one slow careful step at a time.
- Closing her door I slunk around, slipping inside the car myself.
- Nine missions (plus training) find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe.
- He moves after her swiftly, his arms slinking around her waist and hands firmly clamping to the spot where the knife is… I don't want to die until I do this.
- She silently made her way past the bookshelves to Dymion's room, slinking along quietly.
- She turned to face him again as he took a step forward, slinking forward like a wolf toward cornered prey.
- Something moved there now, no longer slinking but charging towards him through the sea of fire that the field had become.
- He slunk stealthily to the captain's cabin where the girl sat weeping on the bed, awaiting her terrible fate.
- I proceeded to stealthily slink through the hallways, lurk in the cafeteria, the library, the football field, the gym.
- And with that she was gone, gliding out the door like a cat slinking away after a successful kill.
- We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved.
- They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death.
- Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard.
- They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion.
Synonyms
slip, move lightly, move quietly, steal
1. 1.1 Come or go unobtrusively or furtively.
  all his so-called friends have slunk off
  Example sentencesExamples
  We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering.
  The previous scientist took a step backward, then slunk out of the door, ashamed.
  They all, one by one, dropped their stones and slunk away.
  According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds.
  About $15 billion in foreign exchange has slunk offshore.
  We slink in quietly and go to the registration desk.
  She had hoped he might slink quietly away to count his losses.
  I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps.
  I followed him back into the woods, slinking away as only a true hunter could.
  He slunk away after the debate without taking one question from the media.
  They don't know people who've left their departments, or any departments, who have mostly slunk out.
  Pulling this over her golden brown locks, she proceeded to slink off in the darkest shadows as stealthily and silently as a cat.
  He bought her a house in Cork Street, and her husband slunk away.
  As she slunk away in deep embarrassment the clerk mouthed the words ‘thank you’ to us all.
  I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar.
  After flunking early out of university, he slunk home to Edinburgh and ‘on a whim’ got a job as a stagehand.
  I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner.
  They quietly left the room and slunk down the hall.
  He grumbled under his breath and slunk back a few steps.
  He could not bear to listen and slunk out of the room.
  Synonyms
  creep, sneak, steal, slip, slide, sidle, edge, move furtively, tiptoe, pussyfoot, pad

nounsliNGkslɪŋk

A slinking movement or walk.
she moved with a sensuous slink
Example sentencesExamples
- The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink.
- Carey's excellent current album, turns the clock back to the halcyon days of laser-guided digital slink.
- When in the bar scene she emerges from her self-imposed isolation, her slink and swagger is perfect.
- All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun.
- She moved with a slink that was more feline than Piebald's walk.
- For a split second there was a flashback to that night she'd first come into my room: that predatory slink, as fluid as oil on water, and seeing her now was a horrible reminder of what'd happened to her.
- Her top 10 single is a grown-up version of an old tune, with heartfelt strums replacing the slink of old.
- In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye.

Origin

Old English slincan ‘crawl, creep’; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German slinken ‘subside, sink’.

单词	slink
释义	Definition of slink in English: slink verbslunk slɪŋkslɪŋk 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner. the fox came slinking through the bracken Example sentencesExamples He moves after her swiftly, his arms slinking around her waist and hands firmly clamping to the spot where the knife is… I don't want to die until I do this. The cat sat still until the basket came to rest against the rocky bank, then she slowly raised her front paw and slunk forward, one slow careful step at a time. And with that she was gone, gliding out the door like a cat slinking away after a successful kill. No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed. I proceeded to stealthily slink through the hallways, lurk in the cafeteria, the library, the football field, the gym. She quietly opened it up and slunk through, with Daniel on her tail. Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard. She silently made her way past the bookshelves to Dymion's room, slinking along quietly. Closing her door I slunk around, slipping inside the car myself. They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion. They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death. She hid behind a rock and quietly slunk around the pond, seeking refuge behind rocks and boulders. She turned to face him again as he took a step forward, slinking forward like a wolf toward cornered prey. Something moved there now, no longer slinking but charging towards him through the sea of fire that the field had become. Nine missions (plus training) find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe. Obeying his orders, the pack stopped fighting and slunk in the woods, disappearing behind the trees. We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved. I pretended not to hear her, and she slunk down the steps a minute later. He slunk stealthily to the captain's cabin where the girl sat weeping on the bed, awaiting her terrible fate. Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway. Synonyms slip, move lightly, move quietly, steal 1.1 Come or go unobtrusively or furtively. all the staff have slunk off home Example sentencesExamples I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner. I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar. We slink in quietly and go to the registration desk. According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds. We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering. Pulling this over her golden brown locks, she proceeded to slink off in the darkest shadows as stealthily and silently as a cat. They don't know people who've left their departments, or any departments, who have mostly slunk out. They quietly left the room and slunk down the hall. The previous scientist took a step backward, then slunk out of the door, ashamed. I followed him back into the woods, slinking away as only a true hunter could. He slunk away after the debate without taking one question from the media. I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps. About $15 billion in foreign exchange has slunk offshore. He grumbled under his breath and slunk back a few steps. He could not bear to listen and slunk out of the room. She had hoped he might slink quietly away to count his losses. They all, one by one, dropped their stones and slunk away. As she slunk away in deep embarrassment the clerk mouthed the words ‘thank you’ to us all. After flunking early out of university, he slunk home to Edinburgh and ‘on a whim’ got a job as a stagehand. He bought her a house in Cork Street, and her husband slunk away. Synonyms creep, sneak, steal, slip, slide, sidle, edge, move furtively, tiptoe, pussyfoot, pad skulk, lurk prowl noun slɪŋkslɪŋk A slinking movement or walk. she moved with a sensuous slink Example sentencesExamples The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink. All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun. For a split second there was a flashback to that night she'd first come into my room: that predatory slink, as fluid as oil on water, and seeing her now was a horrible reminder of what'd happened to her. In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye. She moved with a slink that was more feline than Piebald's walk. Her top 10 single is a grown-up version of an old tune, with heartfelt strums replacing the slink of old. When in the bar scene she emerges from her self-imposed isolation, her slink and swagger is perfect. Carey's excellent current album, turns the clock back to the halcyon days of laser-guided digital slink. Origin Old English slincan 'crawl, creep'; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German slinken 'subside, sink'. snake from Old English: Snakes take their name from the fact that they have no legs and crawl along the ground. The ancestor of snake is an ancient Germanic word that meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Serpent (Middle English) has a similar origin—it comes from Latin serpere, which also meant ‘to crawl or creep’. Yet another word with this original sense was Old English slink. You can describe a treacherous person as a snake in the grass, with the idea of a lurking danger. Snakes are associated with treachery not only in Genesis but in the 6th century bc fables of the Greek storyteller Aesop. In one of his stories a man finds a snake frozen with cold and puts it close to his chest to warm it up. As soon as the snake revives it bites him (see also viper). Before the 17th century the equivalent phrase had featured toads, which were at one time thought to be poisonous—a treacherous person was called a pad in the straw (pad is an old dialect word for a toad). The current expression may have originated from a Latin poem by the Roman poet Virgil. The children's game Snakes and Ladders, called in the USA Chutes and Ladders, was first played at the end of the 19th century. It may be based on an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patamu, which was used to teach children about the Hindu religion—the good squares allowed a player to go to a higher level of life, whereas the evil ‘snakes’ sent them back through reincarnation to lower tiers of life. Rhymes bethink, blink, brink, cinque, clink, dink, drink, fink, Frink, gink, ink, interlink, jink, kink, link, mink, pink, plink, prink, rink, shrink, sink, skink, stink, sync, think, wink, zinc Definition of slink in US English: slink verbsliNGkslɪŋk 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner. the fox came slinking through the woods Example sentencesExamples Obeying his orders, the pack stopped fighting and slunk in the woods, disappearing behind the trees. She hid behind a rock and quietly slunk around the pond, seeking refuge behind rocks and boulders. No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed. Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway. She quietly opened it up and slunk through, with Daniel on her tail. I pretended not to hear her, and she slunk down the steps a minute later. The cat sat still until the basket came to rest against the rocky bank, then she slowly raised her front paw and slunk forward, one slow careful step at a time. Closing her door I slunk around, slipping inside the car myself. Nine missions (plus training) find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe. He moves after her swiftly, his arms slinking around her waist and hands firmly clamping to the spot where the knife is… I don't want to die until I do this. She silently made her way past the bookshelves to Dymion's room, slinking along quietly. She turned to face him again as he took a step forward, slinking forward like a wolf toward cornered prey. Something moved there now, no longer slinking but charging towards him through the sea of fire that the field had become. He slunk stealthily to the captain's cabin where the girl sat weeping on the bed, awaiting her terrible fate. I proceeded to stealthily slink through the hallways, lurk in the cafeteria, the library, the football field, the gym. And with that she was gone, gliding out the door like a cat slinking away after a successful kill. We learned to tell how big a rodent she had spotted by the posture she adopted, how close to the ground she slunk or how fast she moved. They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death. Nicola nodded and slunk quietly over to the sleeping bags, trying not to attract the attention of whatever Landon had heard. They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion. Synonyms slip, move lightly, move quietly, steal 1.1 Come or go unobtrusively or furtively. all his so-called friends have slunk off Example sentencesExamples We all hugged her after she slunk back to us, still quivering. The previous scientist took a step backward, then slunk out of the door, ashamed. They all, one by one, dropped their stones and slunk away. According to reports, the edgy animal had slunk away into the darkness of the power outage, spreading panic among the thronging crowds. About $15 billion in foreign exchange has slunk offshore. We slink in quietly and go to the registration desk. She had hoped he might slink quietly away to count his losses. I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps. I followed him back into the woods, slinking away as only a true hunter could. He slunk away after the debate without taking one question from the media. They don't know people who've left their departments, or any departments, who have mostly slunk out. Pulling this over her golden brown locks, she proceeded to slink off in the darkest shadows as stealthily and silently as a cat. He bought her a house in Cork Street, and her husband slunk away. As she slunk away in deep embarrassment the clerk mouthed the words ‘thank you’ to us all. I meekly asked again for a pint and slunk away from the bar. After flunking early out of university, he slunk home to Edinburgh and ‘on a whim’ got a job as a stagehand. I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner. They quietly left the room and slunk down the hall. He grumbled under his breath and slunk back a few steps. He could not bear to listen and slunk out of the room. Synonyms creep, sneak, steal, slip, slide, sidle, edge, move furtively, tiptoe, pussyfoot, pad nounsliNGkslɪŋk A slinking movement or walk. she moved with a sensuous slink Example sentencesExamples The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink. Carey's excellent current album, turns the clock back to the halcyon days of laser-guided digital slink. When in the bar scene she emerges from her self-imposed isolation, her slink and swagger is perfect. All colours and creeds are here, drawn by the slow slink of the sun. She moved with a slink that was more feline than Piebald's walk. For a split second there was a flashback to that night she'd first come into my room: that predatory slink, as fluid as oil on water, and seeing her now was a horrible reminder of what'd happened to her. Her top 10 single is a grown-up version of an old tune, with heartfelt strums replacing the slink of old. In each scene she has just the right look, the right slink in her walk and deceitful glint in her eye. Origin Old English slincan ‘crawl, creep’; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German slinken ‘subside, sink’.
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