chiefly British, disparaging + offensive
: a lewd or promiscuous woman
Examples of slag in a Sentence
Verb
London reviewers slagged off the new play for being another kitchen-sink drama.
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Alcina Johnson Sudagar, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
There are some issues with properties that residents who moved to Portage in the last 15 years or so assumed always flooded, but many of those problems were caused by the city using slag sand when salt supplies were low to address ice on streets.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
Someone was slagging someone else, someone was telling an outraged story, someone was discussing the logistics of the night.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
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Noun
Some techniques for reducing carbon dioxide emissions include substituting some of the clinker – the hard residue typically made from limestone – with supplementary materials such as clay, or fly ash and slag from industries.
—Alcina Johnson Sudagar, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
There are some issues with properties that residents who moved to Portage in the last 15 years or so assumed always flooded, but many of those problems were caused by the city using slag sand when salt supplies were low to address ice on streets.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
Then there was that Vanity Fair profile of Trump’s inner circle of the not really best and the brightest where Chief of Staff Susie Wiles bluntly slagged everyone including her boss or went deep with a Black Op that fell flat.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
Someone was slagging someone else, someone was telling an outraged story, someone was discussing the logistics of the night.
—Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
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“Slag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slag. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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