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Definition: SLINKY |
SLINKYAdjective1. Thin; lank. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Narrowness Thinness | Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Richard James was on Naval duty in a ship one day when he saw a torsion spring come loose and fall to the floor in front of him. He was intrigued by the way it flopped around on the floor, and remembered it well enough that when he returned home, he was able, with his wife, Betty, to construct a tight coil of a ribbon of steel. He fine-tuned it to be able to walk down stairs. This would be known as the Slinky, because of how it slinked along.
Although first Slinkys were made of metal, they now are available in many different colors of plastic as well. They have been in continuous production since 1945.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slinky."
Crosswords: SLINKY |
| Specialty definitions using "SLINKY": natural frequency. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's gonna be some kind of a record! Everyone loves a Slinky, you gotta get a Slinky, Slinky, Slinky, go Slinky go! (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slinky Minky (1970) | |
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| "SLINKY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SLINKY" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SLINKY": slinky-funk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SLINKY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشية فيها إثارة, مشية مثيرة, إمرأة فاتنة (charmer, mermaid, siren). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | очертаващ фигурата, дебнещ (insidious, mousey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخفی (Clandestine, Closet, Hid, Invisible, Secret, Undercover), خوش ژست , دزدکی (Privy, Snoopy, Stealthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sinueux, séduisant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verführerisch (alluring, beguiling, enticing, seductive, seductively, slinkily, tantalizing, tantalizingly, tempting, temptingly), katzenhaft (cat-like, catty, feline, slinkily), aufreizend (egging, infuriatingly, irritant, maddening, provocative, salacious, slinkily, suggestively, tantalizing, tantalizingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tutajos (raftsman), testhezálló (clinging, fitting), szorosan testhez simuló, kurvás, kihívó (challenger, challenging, defiant, flaunting, flaunty, provocative), feszes (starch, starched, starchy, stiff, stressful, taut, tense, tight), faszállító, bikavadító. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | furtivo (furtive, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkyslay esquivo (elusive), colante (skin-tight). (various references) изящный (airy, dainty, delicate, dinky, distingue, dressy, elegant, fine, jimp, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, polite, refined, slim). (various references) vitak (jimp, lissom, lissome, slender, slim, svelte, willowy), koji se šunja (sneaker, sneaking), graciozan (charming, flowing, lightsome, svelte). (various references) sinuoso (devious, serpentine, sinuous, wandering), seductor (alluring, intriguing, killing, lady killer, ravisher, seducer, seductive, sheik, Sheikh, tempting). (various references) ซึ่งเ"ินลับๆ ล่อๆ. (various references) sinsi (cattish, catty, furtive, gloating, hole-and-corner, insidious, sly, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, underarm, underhand), vücuda oturan (skintight), gizli kapaklı işleri olan, gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), daracık (skintight, snug, tight fit, very narrow). (various references) витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing). (various references) uyển chuyển (free, lithe), lẩn uốn khúc, lượn vòng, lén. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLINKY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clinky, linky, silny, Slansky, slinkey, sliny, slirky, Solnik, splink, Zelensky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLINKY" (pronounced sli"ngkē) |
| 4 | -i" ng k ē | dinky, inky, kinky, Pinkie, pinky, stinky. |
| 3 | -ng k ē | chunky, clunky, cranky, donkey, funky, hanky, honky, hunky, junkie, junky, lanky, monkey, punky, spunky, swanky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-n-s-y" | |
-1 letter: kilns, links, linky, lysin, silky, slink. | |
-2 letters: ilks, inks, inky, inly, kiln, kins, link, lins, liny, nils, silk, sink, skin, syli, yins. | |
-3 letters: ilk, ink, ins, kin, lin, lis, nil, sin, ski, sky, sly, syn, yin. | |
-4 letters: in, is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n-s-y" | |
+1 letter: skyline, snakily. | |
+2 letters: kolinsky, ladykins, linkboys, skylines, slinkily, sneakily, spunkily, swankily. | |
+3 letters: ankylosis, knavishly, sicklying. | |
+4 letters: ankylosing, hyperlinks, kindlessly, mistakenly, prankishly, shockingly, shylocking, skylarking, sneakingly, stinkingly, strikingly. | |
+5 letters: alkylations, brainsickly, flyspecking, kinesiology, kittenishly, lymphokines, playmakings, sickeningly, tiddlywinks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 49 4E 4B 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. -. -.- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L I N K Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0049 004E 004B 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534643484559 |
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