Associations to the word «Slag»

SLAG, noun. Waste material from a coal mine.

SLAG, noun. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.

SLAG, noun. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.

SLAG, noun. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.

SLAG, noun. Scoria associated with a volcano.

SLAG, noun. (UK) (pejorative) (dated) A coward.

SLAG, noun. (UK) (chiefly Cockney) (pejorative) A contemptible person, a scumbag.

SLAG, noun. (UK) (pejorative) A prostitute.

SLAG, noun. (UK) (Australia) (New Zealand) (slang) (pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut.

SLAG, verb. (transitive) To produce slag.

SLAG, verb. (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.

SLAG, verb. (transitive) (with "off") To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).

SLAG, verb. (intransitive) (Australia) (slang) To spit.

SLAG HEAP, noun. A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.

SLAG HEAPS, noun. Plural of slag heap

SLAG OFF, verb. (British) (Irish) (Australia) (slang) (transitive) (idiomatic) To talk insultingly to or about someone or something.

SLAG, noun. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.

SLAG, verb. Convert into slag.