slink
verb /slɪŋk/
/slɪŋk/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they slink | /slɪŋk/ /slɪŋk/ |
| he / she / it slinks | /slɪŋks/ /slɪŋks/ |
| past simple slunk | /slʌŋk/ /slʌŋk/ |
| past participle slunk | /slʌŋk/ /slʌŋk/ |
| -ing form slinking | /ˈslɪŋkɪŋ/ /ˈslɪŋkɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. to move somewhere very quietly and slowly, especially because you are ashamed or do not want to be seen synonym creep
- John was trying to slink into the house by the back door.
- The dog howled and slunk away.
- She slunk out of the room, feeling like a criminal.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySlink is used with these nouns as the subject:- cat
Word OriginOld English slincan ‘crawl, creep’; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German slinken ‘subside, sink’.