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/slou/,/slo͞o/,
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sloughs, plural;
  1. (of an animal, esp. a snake, or a person) Cast off or shed (an old skin or dead skin)
    • - a snake sloughs off its old skin
    • - he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image
  2. (of dead skin) Drop off; be shed

  3. (of soil or rock) Collapse or slide into a hole or depression

Noun
  1. The dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh
    • - the drugs can cause blistering and slough
  1. gangrene: necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
  2. shed: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring"
  3. a hollow filled with mud
  4. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
  5. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
  6. Slough is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England and is situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 (est. ...
  7. "Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in the 1937 collection Continual Dew. It was written in protest against 850 factories that were to be built in the English town of Slough. The poem caused an uproar when first published.
  8. Slough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
  9. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile; Dead skin on a sore or ulcer; To shed (skin)
  10. A town in west London, close to Heathrow Airport
  11. (The Sloughs) Nearly 10,000 acres of the city is a wetland area. The land has several sloughs or swamp. In the winter there's over 10,000 geese and ducks. For hunters, fishermen, hikers, campers, or nature lovers this is a paradise. You can site anything from a turtles to coyotes.
  12. A long, narrow stretch of water such as a small stream or feeder tributary off a lake or river.
  13. A small muddy marshland or tidal waterway which usually connects other tidal areas.
  14. A depression associated with swamps and marshlands as part of a bayou, inlet or backwater; contains areas of slightly deeper water and a slow current; can be thought of as the broad, shallow rivers of the Everglades.
  15. Movement of a soil mass downward along a slope because of a slope angle too great to support the soil, wetness reducing internal friction among particles, or seismic activity. It is also called a slope failure, usually a rather shallow failure. ...
  16. A shallow backwater inlet that is commonly exposed at low flow or tide.
  17. (1) Wet or marshy area. (2) A former stream channel now containing standing water. See oxbow lake.
  18. to play a card to a trick that is neither of the suit led nor of Trump (you must have no cards in either suit); this card cannot win the trick. Generally, the declarer's partner will slough counters onto declarer's first few trump leads, until his or her counters are exhausted.
  19. Necrotic (dead) tissue in the process of separating from viable portions of the body.
  20. a swamp, bog or marsh, especially one that is part of an inlet or backwater
  21. A piece of dead soft tissue or water (Old English sloh, a hole or low area in the ground filled with mud)
  22. a small marshy tract lying in a swale or other local shallow undrained depression; a sluggish creek or channel in a wetland.
  23. A defensive perimeter player intentionally causes an ordinary foul and then moves toward the goal, away from his attacker, who must take a free throw. This tactic allows the defense an opportunity to double-team the hole set and possibly steal the inbound pass. ...
  24. Slough College of Higher Education, now part of Thames Valley University.
  25. The defensive strategy in which a defender drops off a driver to help guard passes into the hole-set.