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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
- Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
- An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
Verbi
- Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
- ignore, shrug (off)
- Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
- to avoid working
- (transitive, Utah, Idaho) To play truant from (school).
Esimerkit
- That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
- The Scouts learned from expert Keith Burke that snow avalanches come in different forms. A powder or "sluff" avalanche starts at a single point and fans out as surface snow slides downhill. These avalanches are not as violent as slab avalanches. Slab avalanches are very dangerous. They occur when a whole hillside of snow breaks loose in a giant slab, which then breaks into snow blocks that tumble downhill faster and faster.
- While I found wonderfully soft and untracked snow near the top, I ended up surprised by the firmer stuff in the chutes near the bottom, where small slides had sluffed away the soft, top layer.
- If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.
- He's sluffing off somewhere.
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