Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, the act, process, or result of applying or using a slur.

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  • verb Present participle of slur.

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Examples

  • I mean his English is perfectly fine, and sure, I have a broad Scots accent, and I'm still groggy and probably slurring from the night before, but I'm not that incomprehensible surely so ...

    Whirled Con 2: Inna The Blue!!!! Hal Duncan 2005

  • I mean his English is perfectly fine, and sure, I have a broad Scots accent, and I'm still groggy and probably slurring from the night before, but I'm not that incomprehensible surely so ...

    Archive 2005-08-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • If everything I've read in comic books is true then beer brewed with space hops will give whoever drinks it powers, like the ability to hit on your significant other's best friend and super word slurring abilities.

    NASA, please get to work on this. Victor Gischler 2008

  • I guess the main difference is that Paula's word slurring resembled a drunk Dog The Bounty Hunter, which should have been a dead giveaway that she was deep in Percocet Paradise.

    BricksAndStonesGossip.com 2009

  • I guess the main difference is that Paula's word slurring resembled a drunk Dog The Bounty Hunter, which should have been a dead giveaway that she was deep in Percocet Paradise.

    BricksAndStonesGossip.com 2009

  • Greenberg has apologized for "slurring" his words, says he feels "horrible" about it and "would never say anything like that."

    NFL Films becomes its own reality show subject in new truTV series 2010

  • Especially those from the Caribbean coast, blacker with a funny kind of slurring accent.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • The "slurring" that you hear is a soft accented Central PA dialect.

    Teachers Union Drops Over $300,000 On Pennsylvania Radio Ad For Hillary 2009

  • I miss the days of Paul Lynde on "Bewitched!" slurring, "Oh, TABITHA!"

    lwb 2004

  • I miss the days of Paul Lynde on "Bewitched!" slurring, "Oh, TABITHA!"

    circle gets a square 2004

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