Noun

slot (plural slots)Category:English lemmas#SLOTCategory:English nouns#SLOTCategory:English countable nouns#SLOTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

   Antonym: tabCategory:English links with manual fragments#SLOT

   insert tab A into slot BCategory:English terms with collocations#SLOT

3. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

   Hyponym: timeslot

   I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

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   With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.

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4. (gamblingCategory:en:Gambling#SLOT, informalCategory:English informal terms#SLOT, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”)Category:English clippings#SLOT.

   I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLOT

5. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 216:

     The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves

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   • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:

     Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer
     Hath left his slot beside the way;
     The little Ermine now is seen
     White wanderer of the snow; […]
     And hark! the rosy-breasted bird,
     The Throstle of sweet song!

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   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.

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   • 2007, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tale of the Children of Húrin, page 212:

     But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.

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6. (AntarcticaCategory:Antarctic English#SLOT) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
   • 1963, John Mayston Béchervaise, Blizzard and Fire, page 111:

     By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.

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   • 1991, Stephen Venables, Island at the Edge of the World, page 161:

     Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.

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7. (slangCategory:English slang#SLOT) The vagina.
8. (aviationCategory:en:Aviation#SLOT) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
9. (computingCategory:en:Computing#SLOT) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

   The game offers four save slots.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLOT

10. (aviationCategory:en:Aviation#SLOT) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
11. (slangCategory:English slang#SLOT, surfingCategory:en:Surfing#SLOT) The barrel or tube of a wave.
12. (field hockey or ice hockeyCategory:en:Field hockey#SLOTCategory:en:Ice hockey#SLOT) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
13. (American footballCategory:en:Football (American)#SLOT) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
14. (electricityCategory:en:Electricity#SLOT) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
    • 2006, Shelby Reed, Madison Hayes, Love a Younger Man, page 165:

      She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.

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    • 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 20:

      Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.

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    • 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 April 2020:

      According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.

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15. (journalismCategory:en:Mass media#SLOT) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
    • 1940, LIFE, volume 8, number 17, page 111:

      The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.

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16. (fishingCategory:en:Fishing#SLOT) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)Category:English lemmas#SLOTCategory:English verbs#SLOTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
3. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cuttingCategory:English links with manual fragments#SLOT or machiningCategory:English links with manual fragments#SLOT.
4. To put something where it belongs.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:

     And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

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5. (slangCategory:English slang#SLOT, BritishCategory:British English#SLOT, RhodesiaCategory:Rhodesian English#SLOT, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
   • 1978 Spring, Collins Reynolds, editor, The Bridge, volume 3, number 1, Center for Research and Education, page 31:

     One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."

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   • 2012, Davy Thompson, Uniforms and Boats, page 59:

     Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.

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   • 2013, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero: The 20th Anniversary Edition, page 184:

     They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.

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6. (AntarcticaCategory:Antarctic English#SLOT) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
   • 1967 June, “Australians' Autumn Journeys Have Perilous Moments”, in Antarctic‎, volume 4, number 10, New Zealand Antarctic Society, pages 503–504:

     The D-4s being heavy vehicles, were in difficulties with crevasses right from the start. At one stage Wood said cheerfully, "Let's give the game away after we get a D-4 slotted one more time", expecting just to get a track break through over a hole. The next minute his machine with him in it disappeared from sight — the tail and the tip of the blade caught and held a little way down the bottomless hole. Reiffel brought his D-4 around on the ice with the big machine picking its way between slots like a ballet dancer, and after a lot of work with ice axes, the slotted machine was hauled out.

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   • 2012, Hazel Edwards, Antarctica's Frozen Chosen:

     I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.

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7. (Australian rules footballCategory:en:Australian rules football#SLOT, rugbyCategory:en:Rugby#SLOT, informalCategory:English informal terms#SLOT) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

See also

• close
• sluice

Alternative forms

• slote (dialectal)

Noun

slot (plural slots)Category:English lemmas#SLOTCategory:English nouns#SLOTCategory:English countable nouns#SLOTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
3. (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SLOT, Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#SLOT) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLOT) A fort or castle.
   • 1578, Barnabe Rich, Allarme to England:

     Thou paydst for building of a slot,
     That wrought thine own decay.

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Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)Category:English lemmas#SLOTCategory:English verbs#SLOTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLOT, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SLOT, Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#SLOT) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLOT, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLOT, UKCategory:British English#SLOT, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SLOT) To shut with violence; to slam.

   to slot a door

Declension

Derived terms

• sandslot

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: slot
• → Betawi: selot
• → Indonesian: slot
• → Papiamentu: slòt, slot
• → Sranan Tongo: sroto, slotto
  • → Aukan: sooto
  • → Saramaccan: söoto

Noun

slotCategory:Indonesian lemmas#SLOTCategory:Indonesian nouns#SLOTCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. slot; lock (an implement for barring, bolting or locking)

Noun

slotCategory:Indonesian lemmas#SLOTCategory:Indonesian nouns#SLOTCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SLOTCategory:Pages with entries#SLOTCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SLOT

1. slot (a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture)
2. slot (a period of time or position within a schedule or sequence)
3. (computingCategory:id:Computing#SLOT) slot (a space in memory or on disk)
4. (gamblingCategory:id:Gambling#SLOT) clipping of mesin slot (“slot, slot machine”)Category:Indonesian clippings#SLOT