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Slim vs Blim - What's the difference?

slim | blim |

As nouns the difference between slim and blim

is that slim is a type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes while blim is a chunk of cannabis resin.

As an adjective slim

is slender, thin.

As a verb slim

is to lose weight in order to achieve slimness.

slim

English

Adjective

(slimmer)
  • Slender, thin.
  • # (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
  • Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
  • # (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
  • # (of an object) Long and narrow.
  • # (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  • (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
    • I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}
  • (South Africa) Sly, crafty.

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    • I only smoke slims .
  • (East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Charled F. Gilks, editors=David A. Warrell et al., chapter=HIV in the Developing World, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edition=4th ed., volume=Volume 1 citation
    • , passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}
  • (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

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    * (AIDS) Slim

    Verb

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

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    blim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.
  • * 2005 , James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney (page 322)
    • Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
  • * 2008 , Dhivan Thomas Jones, Green Eros (page 114)
    • Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim ?
  • * 2011 , Niall Griffiths, Grits (page 274)
    • — Can anyone spair us a blim ? Mags sez.