Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal plural of
sloe . Alsoslans .
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Examples
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By telepathic mutant "slan" who control them at a distance?
Roberson's Book Report Chris Roberson 2008
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Is "slan" the next stage of human evolution ... or a type of elvish waybread?
Blogest tobiasbuckell 2006
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So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.
Blogest tobiasbuckell 2006
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So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.
ccfinlay: Blogest ccfinlay 2006
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Is "slan" the next stage of human evolution ... or a type of elvish waybread?
ccfinlay: Blogest ccfinlay 2006
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Brazil, Australia and Maui are all hot spots for kiters, the slan g for kiteboarders.
The Sky's the Limit! A.J. Baime 2010
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When the head of the human secret police discovers that the President is actually a slan, arresting him and Jommy Cross gives the tendrilless slan group freedom to act unopposed.
Archive 2007-07-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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A "poetry slan," to be confused with "poetry slam," is a poetry reading by sf folks, of course.
Chapter 4! yuki_onna 2009
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When the head of the human secret police discovers that the President is actually a slan, arresting him and Jommy Cross gives the tendrilless slan group freedom to act unopposed.
Archive 2007-08-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Abortion providers, always a small and beleaguered group, have grown more apprehensive since the murders of Britton and David Gunn, the abortion doctor slan in Pensacola last year.
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In van Vogt’s story, the regular people of Earth persecute “slans,” genetically advanced humans.
The Self-Styled Sci-Fi Supermen of the 1940s | JSTOR Daily Livia Gershon 2020
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