slime-ball
English
Noun
slime-ball (plural slime-balls)
- Alternative form of slimeball
- 1999, V. Kumar, “Dicrocoeliasis and Eurytremiasis”, in Trematode Infections and Diseases of Man and Animals, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers in collaboration with ITG Press, →ISBN, section 5.2.2.1 (Features of Life Cycle), page 223:
- The slime-balls, which are whitish and have fluid gel-like consistency and in which the cercariae lie in free state, appear 120 to 150 days after the ingestion of eggs by the mollusc.
- 2001, Tim LeBon, “The Emotions and Reason”, in Wise Therapy: Philosophy for Counsellors (SPC [School of Psychotherapy and Counselling] Series), London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, part 2 (The Emotions, Reason and the Meaning of Life), page 117:
- [T]he man held the view that ‘All car dealers are slime-balls’ which, naturally enough, led to anxiety whenever confronted by a car dealer. Once this belief was challenged as an over-generalization, the man’s anxiety when buying a car subsided [...].
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