- the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
- anything that is shed or cast off.
- a discard.
- to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
- to cast off a slough.
- to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.
- to discard a card or cards.
- to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed by off): to slough off a bad habit.
- to shed as or like a slough.
- to discard (cards).
- to treat as slight or trivial: to slough over a friend's mistake.
- an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
- a hole full of mire, as in a road.
- a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.
- a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
- a hollow filled with mud; bog
- (sluː) US and Canadian
- (in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole
- (in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river
- (on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet
- despair or degradation
- any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc
- a discarded card
- to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed
- to discard (a card or cards)
- an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126 276 (2001)
- a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118 800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
