Slot

Pronunciation

• IPA: /slÉ’t/
• Rhymes: -É’t

From Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, from West Germanic. Cognate with German Schloss ("door-bolt").

Full definition of slot

Noun

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. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
4. (slang, surfing) surfing term for the barrel or tube of a wave.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.to slot a door

From Old French esclot, of unknown origin.

Noun

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
2. A gap in a schedule or sequence.
3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
4. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
5. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.The game offers four save slots.
6. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
7. (slang) The vagina.
• 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.
• 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.

Derived terms

• slotwise

Verb

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 put something where it belongs.
• 2010, December 29, Chris Whyatt, Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton, And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.

Derived terms

• slot in

From Old French esclot, from Old Norse slóð ("track"). Compare sleuth.

Noun

1. The track of an animal, especially a deer.
• 1819: “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Derived terms

• slot-hound

Anagrams

• lost
• lots
• STOL