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Also, slink off . Depart furtively, as in The shoplifter slipped an item into his coat pocket and slunk away , or After that severe scolding, she slunk off . This term employs slink in the sense of “move stealthily,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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