sloot

/ sluːt /

noun

1. a ditch for irrigation or drainage

Word History and Origins

Origin of sloot¹

from Afrikaans, from Dutch sluit, sluis sluice

Example Sentences

Lawyers for Murdaugh said an FBI agent who conducted a polygraph test asked Murdaugh if he could keep a secret, then confided he had just examined notorious Dutch killer Joran van der Sloot.

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For three hours Joran van der Sloot was questioned — first by his own attorney and then by FBI agents — about what happened to Holloway, said Mark White, an attorney representing Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway.

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“Chilling,” White said of watching and listening to van der Sloot’s account.

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Van der Sloot’s admission that he killed Holloway came as part of a plea deal in a related extortion case after months of work and was agreed to by her parents in order to get answers about what happened to their daughter.

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The plea deal required van der Sloot to make a proffer — providing information about what he knew about the crime — and to let her parents witness the statement in “real time.”

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