slue

Other forms of slue

past tense

slued·

present participle

sluing·

third person

slues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slue

What does slue mean?

slue means "turn sharply; change direction abruptly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slue?

slue has 1 syllable: slue.

What is another word for slue?

Close synonyms include swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slue a common word?

slue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.