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Discover LudwigSentence The word 'slag' is considered informal and is typically used in spoken English.
It is rarely used in formal written English outside of direct quotes. An example sentence of using the word 'slag' is: "He tried to slag me off, but I'm not going to let him get away with it!".
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slag
noun
Waste material from a coal mine.
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This is a tough, working-class region – the landscape is mottled with slag heaps – and, with its long history of mining and poverty, the overall atmosphere is of a French-speaking Yorkshire.
It quickly becomes a generalised overview of dating apps and sites, and those on them, such as Chris, who has asked out more than 15,000 women, and single-mum Joanna, who treats her date to the immortal line: "I've been a slag.
The people we slag off in the comfort of your home we will greet with genuine warmth next time we meet them.
In fact, they have pretty much the same stereotypes of this part of France as we do of the north of England: slag heaps, rain, incomprehensible accents.
The slag heaps are grassed over and covered with trees, while, up on the hill, the arcing turbines of a windfarm loom large (computerised visual effects will eventually remove the windfarm and reinstate pitheads in the film).
When you're a woman in this country and you have an affair [Holden had a fling with Neil Morrissey while married to Les Dennis] you're immediately perceived as a slag or something horrific.
But you make me want not to be a slag, unless it's for you".
On land once covered with slag heaps and old mine buildings, a new complex of roundabouts is being constructed and ground is being cleared ready for more than 4,000 homes to be built in the next few years.
While reserving the right to slag them off at will, we don't begrudge them their untold wealth.
They often encourage dress codes like "slag and drag" or "CEOs and corporate hoes", which perpetuate the subordinate status of women and the dominant role of men in society.
Mining has long gone; a vast slag heap, covered with whiskery grass, looms as a defiant historical reminder.
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